CRTC Battles Forces Of Dorkness, Takes Action Against Notorious Botnet

In the second such announcement in less than a week, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has publicly announced an advanced investigative action -- this time against an unnamed organization suspected of involvement in the distribution the notorious and widely distributed Win32/Dorkbot malware.

The CRTC announced that, with the assistance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), it had served its first-ever warrant under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) to "take down" a command-and-control server located in Toronto, Ontario as part of what the Commission has characterized as a coordinated international effort.

In a similar announcement last week, the Commission stated that it had executed an inspection warrant under the Telecommunications Act to enter and inspect an unidentified property in Brampton, Ontario, as part of an ongoing investigation into an illegal telemarketing operation.