Microsoft takes down cz.cc

[Gimgak]

These were domains either directly or though subdomains, that were actually being utilized to point computers to command and control websites for the Kelihos botnet," said Richard Boscovich, an attorney with Microsoft's digital crimes unit.

With somewhere between 42,000 and 45,000 infected computers, Kelihos is a small botnet. But, it was spewing out just under 4 billion spam messages per day -- junk mail related to stock scams, pornography, illegal pharmaceuticals and malicious software. Technically, the botnet looked a lot like Waledac, and some security experts think it may have been built by the same criminals.

The idea of a highly disruptive botnet that Microsoft shut down in February 2010 quietly resurfacing under a different name didn't sit too well with Microsoft's digital crimes unit. "We wanted to take it out early enough so that number one, it wouldn't grow and propagate ... but also to make the point that when a threat is down, it's going to stay down," Boscovich said. "I think we made that point pretty effectively in this particular operation."

All but one of the Internet domains that Microsoft took offline are anonymously registered in the Bahamas, but one domain cz.cc is owned by Dominique Piatti who runs a domain name business called Dotfree Group out of the Czech Republic.

source: http://www.circleid.com/posts/microsoft ... ubdomains/

Interesting for those who use free subdomains 🙂

 

[Patrick S.]

I feel sick now.
I think i'm going to go barf.
I have used .cz.c for a year 🙁

 

[Shahrier]

Never used cz.cc before.... how can a domain be so harmful?

 

[NBK*Twitch]

I find it stupid for them to take down a whole server due to a small fraction of the users,using it for bad reasons.. It is about as stupid as google removing co.cc listings.

 

[Austin01]

This is stupid. I've used them many times before and nothing has happened, and cz.cc should have dealt with the problem accordingly and not Microsoft.

Microsoft is to protective of things.

 

[Gimgak]

To be fair services like co.cc or cz.cc profit/profited off of these cyber criminals who would order large amounts (1x,xxx) of their sub domains with ill intentions.

 

[NBK*Twitch]

To be fair services like co.cc or cz.cc profit/profited off of these cyber criminals who would order large amounts (1x,xxx) of their sub domains with ill intentions.

Okay first it is a full domain, they come with dns support and everything so please quit saying sub domain it is annoying lol...

Second yes it is true people have been using these domains for wrong doing,but only a small amount. It is like taking a baseball bat from everyone who owns one,because one person used it for murder...

 

[Gimgak]

It's still a sub-domain as it isn't an actual domain. If FP provided full dns support and everything for yoursite.forumpromotion.net it's still a sub-domain, just because its short doesn't make that the case.

Oh and cz.cc is back up it seems lol