Dark Reading: Large Botnet Comes Back To Life -- With More Malware

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The Necurs botnet associated with Dridex and Locky is back after three-week haitus.

6/23/2016
By Jai Vijayan

A botnet associated with the huge volumes of Dridex and Locky-laden emails in recent months has resumed operations after mysteriously going dark for three weeks.

Researchers from multiple firms report seeing a sharp increase in malicious traffic originating from the Necurs botnet, after a significant drop-off beginning May 31.

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