SEATTLE — Microsoft has taken legal steps to dismantle one of the world’s largest botnets, an effort it says is aimed at thwarting criminal hackers who might seek to snarl state and local computer systems used to maintain voter rolls or report on election results.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Microsoft seeks to disrupt Russian criminal botnet it fears could seek to sow confusion in the presidential election
The software giant won a court order to seize servers used by the Trickbot botnet, a network of infected computers that Microsoft says might have been used to lock up voter-registration systems.
By Jay Greene
and October 12, 2020 at 4:21 p.m. EDT