Symantec announces the successful take down of the Bamital Bot-Net. Symantec Security who credits Spain's Civil Guardia, Catalunyan CERT, and Microsoft for bringing this botnet, had been tracking this malware infection group since 2009 and had recently partnered with Microsoft to assits in the ultimate elimiantion.


The Bamital infection was designed to hijack browsers and it's search results. It would then redirect the users search engine clicks to where ever the migrants wished. Generally for some for profit reason or simply to infect the machine with another virus.

Bamital is just one of many botnets that utilize clickfraud for monetary gain and to foster other cybercrime activities. Many of the attackers behind these schemes feel they are low risk as many users are unaware that their computers are being used for these activities. This takedown sends a message to those attackers that these clickfraud operations are being monitored and can be taken offline.

Symmantec produced this rather overdramatic video on the topic.








 Botnet Bamital Goes Bye-Bye.