The Rustock botnet–one of the most prolific sources of spam–went silent this week. Microsoft worked with security vendors and the civil court system to pull the plug on Rustock. Some security experts ...

The effort to unmask and apprehend the criminals behind the massive Rustock botnet heated up today as Microsoft put up a $250,000 reward for new information on the botnet's operators. Rustock -- which ...

Notorious spam botnet Rustock has gone quiet and security analysts aren’t sure why. Researchers with Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence, citing a Brian Krebs post on KrebsonSecurity, said the botnet ...

In March, Microsoft, the U.S. Federal Marshal service and security firm FireEye took down the Rustock botnet, a network of a million compromised computers surreptitiously managed by a group of ...

Microsoft on Thursday wrapped up its civil case against the still-unnamed controllers of the Rustock botnet and handed off the information gleaned during its investigation to the FBI. But the move ...

If you opened your inbox this morning to find fewer spam emails than normal, it may not be a coincidence. The infamous Rustock botnet, the world's most prolific source of spam emails, went silent on ...

It has been four months since Microsoft and federal authorities knocked the prolific spamming botnet Rustock offline, and some 700,000 of the estimated 1.6 million bots worldwide are still infected ...

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Hard drives seized in raids are being analysed for clues to who was behind Rustock The Rustock botnet, which sent up to 30 billion spam messages per day, might have been run by two or three people.

For more than 24 hours this week, it was a question that very few security experts could answer: Who had knocked the world’s worst spam botnet offline? After infecting close to a million computers and ...

Spam e-mail volumes dropped to a new low over the holiday season, sinking to their lowest levels since the November 2008 shuttering of rogue ISP McColo, Symantec security researchers found. According ...

A series of raids last week submarined Rustock, Microsoft said, noting that it had filed a lawsuit that sparked the raids. Rustock would take control of a computer and use it to send spam. It is ...