Millions hit by Microsoft cybercrime action
Found on BBC News on Tuesday, 01 July 2014
In a blogpost, Microsoft lawyer Richard Boscovich said it had taken the action against domain administration firm No-IP.com for its "roles in creating, controlling, and assisting in infecting millions of computers with malicious software".
Microsoft had taken the legal step of making itself the controller of the 23 domains because No-IP had not done enough to police them, wrote Mr Boscovich. A federal court in Nevada granted Microsoft the right to take over the No-IP domains.
"Millions of innocent users are experiencing outages to their services because of Microsoft's attempt to remediate hostnames associated with a few bad actors," wrote No-IP in a statement posted on its site.
If someone gave Microsoft the job to take out one single criminal, they would nuke the entire continent where it is hiding. That action is overkill and hopefully will have some legal consequences, otherwise it will serve as a bad example.