All Seized Domains Returned to No-IP
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They also said that the domain seizure affected many of the company’s other customers, and a couple of days after the initial takedown Microsoft admitted that a “technical error” had led to that problem, but it had been resolved. Microsoft for the past several years been executing these kinds of takedowns, often focusing on botnets and large scale malware operations, and one component of many of them has been the seizure of various domains used for command and control or infections. Those kinds of seizures have been a controversial tactic for a long time in the security community, but Microsoft officials, through the company’s Digital Crimes Unit, have made them commonplace. The wild use of domain sinkholing has been a controversial discussion for a long time, the fact that we’re seeing corporations like Microsoft seizing assets belonging to legitimate companies made many peers in our community drop their jaws,” said Claudio Guarnieri, an independent security researcher who has worked on many anti-botnet projects. They have regained control of their domains, and we are reviewing the malicious subdomains to identify the victims of the malware,” David Finn, executive director and associate general counsel, Digital Crimes Unit at Microsoft, said in a statement.
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