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Microsoft and partners disrupt Zeus botnets

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Mar

2012

We have discussed in the past our collaboration with external parties to combat botnet threats to further the betterment of the Internet, such as Operations b49, b107 and b79. This week, Microsoft has partnered with security experts and the financial services industry on a new action codenamed Operation b71 to disrupt some of the worst […]

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MSRT March 2012: Breaking bad

14

Mar

2012

This month, the MMPC added Win32/Dorkbot to the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool along with detections for the threats Win32/Hioles, Win32/Pluzoks and Win32/Yeltminky. Win32/Dorkbot is described as an IRC-based botnet and a worm, a backdoor with rootkit capability and a password stealer. Despite using a very simple IRC protocol to communicate with the command and […]

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There’s a cream for that

12

Mar

2012

The other day, while previewing messages in my inbox, I saw a conspicuous message with the following parameters, typos included: To: (email address)CC: (email address),…Subject: Your ex sent me this pciture of you.Body:Hey (email address),Your ex sent me this picture claiming it’s you. Is it really so? You probaly should see a doctor:) They can […]

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