Microsoft Keeps Control of Two Zeus Botnets

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A US District Court in New York has granted Microsoft’s motion to hold possession of two Zeus botnets for further study and facilitate the cleanup of infected domains. The Zeus botnet control servers were taken down and seized during operations last spring.

Overall, Zeus is an infection framework that allows attackers to create malware and spread it using spam campaigns. In addition, the toolkit includes server software to manage the resulting network of compromised machines or botnet.
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"further study"? it's a botnet that's already been well documented and the source code made public. What possible reasons could they need to keep it alive? To click on Google AdWords links to piss people off so much they'll start running their PPC campaigns with Bing? lol
 
Hrmmm.. Zeus was not the first to be able to do this, and it won't be the last.

I question why they want to hold on to control of this. Does this mean that there are infected computers that they can do anything they want with?
 
My only guess, study how it grew, then figure out a way to clean it. *shrugs*
 
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