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After the Pushdo/Cutwail, Bredolab and Rustock botnets were taken offline, the geography of spam sources underwent some major changes. In particular, from September 2010 the US, for a long time the leading spam distributor, began to lose ground. For several months now it hasn’t even made it into the Top 10 leading sources of spam […]

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Would you like to know more about the MMPC, and how we protect computer users worldwide? We have released new versions of two whitepapers which describe how the MMPC operates, and provide an introduction to the antimalware technologies that the MMPC supports. The two new papers are: – Malware Research and Response at Microsoft: This […]

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In an effort to continue raising awareness about the Rustock botnet that was successfully taken down on March 16th, the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) and Trustworthy Computing released a new Special Edition Security Intelligence Report (SIR) today titled “Battling the Rustock Threat“. Our telemetry indicates that the bot […]

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