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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...