Security experts in Poland on Thursday quietly seized domains used to control the Virut botnet, a huge army of hacked PCs that is custom-built to be rented out to cybercriminals. NASK, the domain registrar that operates the “.pl” Polish top-level domain registry, said that on Thursday it began assuming control over 23 .pl domains that were being used to operate the Virut network. The company has r
![Polish Takedown Targets ‘Virut’ Botnet – Krebs on Security](https://cdn-ak-scissors.b.st-hatena.com/image/square/bae3764e01fbd8cac2465f023a0455cbc239bd00/height=288;version=1;width=512/https%3A%2F%2Fkrebsonsecurity.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F01%2Fsymvirut.png)