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With Rogue AV, It’s More Than a Game of “Spot What’s Different”

03

Nov

2011

Rogue AV has been one of the biggest profit-generating schemes for cybercriminals since its inception. These past few months, however, our team in the AV Labs has seen a decline, and this is due to a combination of factors, including continued coverage of these scams in non-technical news sources, efforts on the part of the […]

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Update on the Zbot spot!

01

Nov

2011

Hello Internet! I’m back to update you on our changes to Zbot in the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). We reviewed the data coming back from MSRT in September and incorporated the findings into October’s MSRT (and beyond), which means we are now in a position to provide additional information. As I mentioned in the […]

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Rustock network offline, cleanup continues

05

Jul

2011

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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