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Botnet management station neutralized in Lithuania
BC, Vilnius, 09.09.2013.
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Print versionCooperating with the German's CERT-Bund, Lithuania's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-LT) detected and neutralized the botnet management station in Lithuania which was used for the control and management of the took-over computers, informs LETA/ELTA.
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It is believed that, from May, this botnet management stations has been controlling 5400 computers all over the world.
CERT-LT (Computer Emergency Response Team) or CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) is the group, whose main purpose is an urgent response to network and information security incidents in the electronic communication networks and coordination of the activities when eliminating it, especially when there is a potential risk to the functionality of the network or to the security of the data.
A botnet is a collection of Internet-connected programs communicating with other similar programs in order to perform tasks.
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