Microsoft No-IP takedown to strike malware draws protests

Microsoft on Monday staged a takedown of two malware families abusing no-IP services but, in the mission to take down the botnets, legitimate servers depending on dynamic domain name services from No-IP were, as Dan Goodin of Ars Technica put it, caught in the crossfire. A substantial number of legitimate servers that rely on dynamic domain name services from No-IP.com suffered outages.



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