Microsoft Offers $250K Bounty for Rustock Author
Summary: Microsoft offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the Rustock botnet, which once sent 40 percent of all junk email. Microsoft had disrupted the botnet's support infrastructure in March with ISPs and security firms, but Richard Boscovich of its digital crimes unit said hundreds of thousands of infected computers worldwide still needed cleaning.
Why it matters: The bounty is Microsoft's fourth $250,000 anti-virus reward, and it has paid out only once - for the Sasser worm author - so the hundreds of thousands of still-infected machines remain the concrete problem while attribution proceeds.
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