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Au travers d’un partenariat de sécurité public-privé, Europol et le FBI, associés à des acteurs technologiques dont Microsoft, ont mené une action contre le botnet ZeroAccess. Mais si son fonctionnement est perturbé, il n’est cependant pas démantelé. 
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Microsoft, in conjunction with Europol and the FBI, have successfully taken down the click fraud servers used by ZeroAccess, disrupting one of the world's largest and most resilient botnets.
In the meantime though we should give praise to Microsoft and its crime busting partners for the serious blow they have landed on a difficult opponent.
Unless Microsoft or Europol can identify the 'John Does 1-8' mentioned in the court documents then we can expect ZeroAccess to resurface in the near future.
Gust MEES's insight:
ZeroAccess, also known as the Sirefef botnet, is believed to have infected more than 9 million computers worldwide.
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Gust MEES's insight:
ZeroAccess targets all major search engines and browsers, including Google, Bing and Yahoo!
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With more than 2 Million home computers infected, the ZeroAccess Botnet Generates roughly $1 Million in Ad Click fraud daily for cybercriminals.
A report from network-based security and analytics vendor Kindsight says that 2.2 million home networks were infected with the ZeroAccess botnet in Q3 2012. This infection rate means that advertisers are losing almost one million dollars a day due to click fraud generated by the botnet, the report adds.
ZeroAccess has been around since 2010, and is a business in and of itself. In September, it was estimated that the size of the botnet had grown to one million systems and had been installed over 9 million times globally, with the majority of these infection and installation points located within the U.S.
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