Kelihos is taken down, again!

A resurrected incarnation of the infamous Kelihos botnet has been taken out.

The takedown operation – mounted by Kaspersky Lab's experts, along with the CrowdStrike Intelligence Team, Dell SecureWorks and members of the Honeynet Project – follows six months after the original spam-spewing and credential-stealing botnet was dismantled in September 2011.