Here at Microsoft, we’ve been fighting botnets and the criminals that run them for years. During that time, we’ve been able to disrupt more than a few, including the Waledac, Rustock, Kelihos, Zeus, Nitoland Bamitalbotnets.
Today, we took the fight against botnets to the next level.
By tapping into Microsoft's vast cloud resources, we are now able to share “…information on known botnet malware infections with Internet service providers and computer emergency response teams (CERTs) in near real time. The new Windows Azure-based Cyber Threat Intelligence Program (C-TIP) will allow these organizations to have better situational awareness of cyber threats, and more quickly and efficiently notify people of potential security issues with their computers,” TJ Campana, director of security in Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, writes today over on Microsoft on the Issues.
On Friday, Microsoft’s Orlando Ayala joined with the Secretary of State of Telecommunications and Information Society of Spain, Victo Calvo Sotelo, to announce an agreement for the Spanish CERT, INTECO, to become one of the first organizations to receive data from the C-TIP cloud service.
The Spanish CERT joins other organizations, including the Luxembourg CERTs, CIRCL and govCERT, as an early adopter of this program, which allows ISPs and CERTs to receive updated threat data related to infected computers in their specific country or network approximately every 30 seconds. All the information is uploaded directly to each organization’s private cloud through Windows Azure.
For the rest of this story, read today’s post from Campana over on Microsoft on the Issues.
Jeff Meisner
Microsoft News Center Staff