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 ...

Microsoft is trying to use its financial clout to bolster its investigation into who may be behind the notorious Rustock spambot. While the primary goal for our legal and technical operation has been ...

Alex Lanstein stared at the 65-inch computer monitor in the living room of his Boston apartment. Streaming data lit up the screen, the actions of a cyberlord giving orders to his botnet, a zombie army ...

One year after the Rustock botnet takedown, spam levels are staying steady at 94 billion e-mails per day. <a href='http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/spam ...

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Microsoft has announced that it has taken down the Kelihos botnet, following its previous successes in taking down the Waledec botnet last year, and the Rustock botnets in March 2011. Botnets are ...

Microsoft is offering up a frontier-style incentive, putting up a $250,000 bounty for information that helps bring the Rustock gang to justice Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

A report issued in the wake of Microsoft's legal take-down of the Rustock botnet suggests that the criminals behind the spam network were Russian.