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 ...

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 ...

According to a new report from Symantec, global spam levels fell a whopping 33 percent when Rustock was taken down in mid-March. However, the criminals behind the Bagle botnet were quick to step in ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Rustock, one of the oldest and most prolific botnets in Web history, is at it again. According to a blog by NetWitness researcher Alex Cox, Rustock is spouting spam again after a brief respite in 2010 ...

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 ...

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According to a report out this morning from content security solutions firm Marshal, the Rustock botnet has become the world's largest source of spam, overtaking the Srizbi botnet, which was sending ...

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 ...

Aaron Wendel opened the doors of his business to some unexpected visitors on the morning of Mar. 16, 2011. The chief technology officer of Kansas City based hosting provider Wholesale Internet found ...