Polish CERT acts against Virut malware with domain takedowns

CERT Polska, a computer emergency response team in Poland that is run under the aegis of the country’s Research and Academic Network (NASK), has announced takedown action against a raft of web servers associated with the Virut family of malware.

Most zombies rely on connecting to so-called C&C (command-and-control) servers to find out what to do next.