Microsoft uses copyright claims to fight ransomware

13-10-2020

Sarah Morgan

Microsoft uses copyright claims to fight ransomware

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Microsoft and others have executed an unusual legal strategy to dismantle Trickbot, one of the world’s largest botnets and prolific distributors of ransomware, based on an approach that includes copyright claims.


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