Europol said that it had conducted this operation with the assistance of investigators from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Europol was helped by 3 tech companies, AnubisNetworks, a unit of BitSight Technologies; Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp, as well in dismantling the command and control server infrastructure used by the hackers. Microsoft alongwith Washington-based Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center sought a court order in US court to shutdown the servers in a sealed lawsuit, Microsoft statement said. Acting on the investigations and armed with the court order, Europol and its allies seized servers in four countries and destroyed the botnet network. India figured majorly in the infected zombie computers with almost 27 percent infections and Indonesia followed suit with 18 percent while the other countries Vietnam, the United States, Bangladesh and the Philippines followed. The malware got installed through spear phishing links on spam email or malware laden websites and enabled the cyber criminals to control these 3.2 million PC for furthering their nefarious activities. If you are worried that your PC may have been a part of this Ramnit botnet network you can get further information by visiting www.getsafeonline.org or www.cyberstreetwise.com and getting more information.
