Microsoft has lent its botnet-busting muscles to the FBI to help it defeat the GameOver Zeus (GOZ) trojan, an aggressive piece of malware targeting passwords and online bank account details



From Techradar:

The trojan, which was the most active banking trojan of 2013, has been responsible for causing an estimated $100 million (£60 million) in losses after infecting more than 1 million consumer and business PCs worldwide.However, according to a Microsoft blog post, a multinational team effort between itself, the FBI, government agencies and private companies has effectively de-clawed the threat, meaning it now poses no threat to infected computers.Companies including Microsoft and Symantec are providing tools to remove the threat, which poses a risk to Windows PCs (Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and Windows Server 2003, 2008 RT and 2012).

  Microsoft and FBI team up to take down GameOver Zeus botnet