Microsoft disrupts global criminal botnet that posed a risk to the election, and finds the U.S. doing same

Microsoft announced legal action seeking to disrupt a major cybercrime digital network that uses more than 1 million zombie computers to loot bank accounts and spread ransomware, which experts consider a major threat to the U.S. presidential election.

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