Microsoft: We have good news and we have bad news. The good news is the Kelihos botnet has not made a return as erroneously reported by Kaspersky Labs. The bad news is a closely related variant called Backdoor:Win32/Kelihos.B is loose in the wild.
Reports claimed that the Kelihos botnet was being put back into operation. However, Microsoft has now said that has not happened, although it admits that a new malware threat with similarities to the Kelihos botnet has appeared.
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Reports claimed that the Kelihos botnet was being put back into operation. However, Microsoft has now said that has not happened, although it admits that a new malware threat with similarities to the Kelihos botnet has appeared.
Source 1, Source 2