Microsoft seizes several servers to steal login accounts and passwords

Absrtact: Microsoft has recently won a crackdown on cyber-banking fraud. Microsoft has seized several servers to steal login accounts and passwords, smashing some of the top cyber-crime gangs. Microsoft says it will take legal and technical measures against cyber criminals

Microsoft has recently won a crackdown on cyber-banking fraud. Microsoft has seized several servers to steal login accounts and passwords, "smashing" some of the top cyber-crime gangs.

Microsoft says it will take legal and technical measures to crack down on cyber criminals. It is reported that criminals through Zeus malicious software to infect computers, the computer to the botnet, Zeus record infected computer behavior, theft of Internet users financial account information.

"We disrupt the important sources of Internet theft, get information that helps identify criminals, and better protect victims," said Richard Boscovich, a senior lawyer for the Microsoft Digital Crime Investigation Department. "Microsoft is working with financial professionals to investigate cyber crime," he said.

Microsoft's Digital Crime Investigation Division is a global team of investigators, lawyers, analysts and experts in the field. Microsoft believes that the action currently taken has not caused a fatal blow to Zeus, the criminal hackers still often haunt the site also provides Zeus downloads.

But Microsoft also said the goal was not to permanently shut down all Zeus-affected botnets, but instead to find infrastructure to destroy botnets, identify criminals and clean infected computers.

The operation closed some channels for criminals to infect computers and monitored some facilities.