FBI vs Coreflood Botnet Round One Goes to the Feds

The takedown operation began two weeks ago, when the Justice Department obtained an unprecedented court order allowing the FBI and U.S.

Marshals Service to swap out command-and-control servers that were communicating with machines infected with Coreflood � malicious software used by criminals to loot a victims banking accounts � and replace them with servers controlled by the FBI. The controversial order also allowed the government to coll

Source:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/coreflood_results/