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# Microsoft, financial services and others join forces to combat massive cybercrime ring

Microsoft, June 5, 2013. Microsoft's technical-partner role in the June 2013 Citadel botnet disruption and the legal mechanism: a civil action authorised by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina under which Microsoft, escorted by the U.S. Marshals Service, seized data and servers from hosting facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on 5 June 2013, severing 1,462 Citadel botnets; the FBI separately obtained and served domestic search warrants and shared information with foreign counterparts..

**Source type:** Other

**Published:** June 5, 2013

**Research grade:** T1

**Used in entries:** 2

## Bibliographic record

**Publisher:** Microsoft

**Published:** June 5, 2013

**Source type:** Other

**Research grade:** Source grade T1

**Language:** English

**Official record:** Not an official publication

**Address:** [https://news.microsoft.com/source/2013/06/05/microsoft-financial-services-and-others-join-forces-to-combat-massive-cybercrime-ring/](https://news.microsoft.com/source/2013/06/05/microsoft-financial-services-and-others-join-forces-to-combat-massive-cybercrime-ring/)

**What it supports:** Microsoft's technical-partner role in the June 2013 Citadel botnet disruption and the legal mechanism: a civil action authorised by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina under which Microsoft, escorted by the U.S. Marshals Service, seized data and servers from hosting facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on 5 June 2013, severing 1,462 Citadel botnets; the FBI separately obtained and served domestic search warrants and shared information with foreign counterparts.

**Dataset id:** src\_microsoft\_citadel\_2013

## Research notes

- Microsoft's own announcement of an operation it ran, so official but not independent.

How this source is used

Cited 2 times across 2 record types.

The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.

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## Cited by

### Takedown records

1 citation

Cited on the takedown record itself.

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[Citadel botnet disruption](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/citadel-botnet-disruption)

Malware and botnets, June 2013

Supporting source

### Organization roles

1 citation

Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.

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[Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/citadel-botnet-disruption)

Co-lead, Citadel botnet disruption

Primary source

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