FireEye versus Mega-D

*Get 'em.

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/11/researchers-well-aimed-stone-take-down-goliath-botnet.ars

"Security researchers have taken down a major spam offender, though the dip in spam levels may be only temporary. Members of the FireEye security team coordinated an attack on the Mega-D botnet (also known as Ozdok) last week by preemptively registering domains meant for the botnet's command and control channels (CnCs) and shutting down others. Spam coming from Mega-D stopped almost ...