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Rustock Case Update

23

Sep

2011

Today, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit announced that we have concluded our civil case against the Rustock botnet operators and turned evidence found during that investigation over to the FBI as a criminal referral. While the FBI will be driving that investigation, we will continue to offer the $250,000 reward for information which leads to the […]

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Doing the Zbot spot; playing gotcha with a botnet

15

Sep

2011

Greetings Internet! This month (carefully hidden under the Win32/Bamital blanket), employing the old adage ‘fight fire with fire’, we decided to fight sneakiness with sneakiness and quietly slipped a fairly major Win32/Zbot update into MSRT. “Zbot” I hear you say? Yes, it’s still around and kicking. Despite Win32/Zbot (officially self-titled with the oh-so-ego-inflating ‘Zeus’ moniker, despite […]

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More on Morto

30

Aug

2011

As some of you might be aware, we’ve recently been seeing low levels of reports of Win32/Morto – a worm that causes headaches for users who may have less than ideal password policies – so we thought we’d look at this in more detail. The number of computers reporting infections or infection attempts continues to […]

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