Rootkits embody software code designed to hide from view, so the tale of how Kaspersky Lab hunted down the rumored Rustock rootkit reads like a Sherlock Holmes story. Rootkits are software code ...

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 ...

More than 40% of the world’s spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle, according to new statistics from Symantec’s MessageLabs’ division. The ...

A series of raids last week submarined Rustock, Microsoft said, noting that it had filed a lawsuit that sparked the raids. Rustock would take control of a computer and use it to send spam. It is ...

The ‘takedown’ of the world’s biggest botnet Rustock could have a marked effect on global spam levels for months to come despite rivals trying to move onto its patch, new figures from Symantec show.

Microsoft is trying to use its financial clout to bolster its investigation into who may be behind the notorious Rustock spambot. While the primary goal for our legal and technical operation has been ...

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 ...

A newly discovered rootkit may not be particularly threatening in itself, but its unique method of concealment could pave the way for more malicious exploits, researchers say. Symantec and F-Secure ...

One year after the Rustock botnet takedown, spam levels are staying steady at 94 billion e-mails per day. <a href='http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/04/spam ...

A report issued in the wake of Microsoft's legal take-down of the Rustock botnet suggests that the criminals behind the spam network were Russian.

Microsoft is offering up a frontier-style incentive, putting up a $250,000 bounty for information that helps bring the Rustock gang to justice Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

More than 40 percent of the world's spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle, according to new statistics from Symantec's MessageLabs' ...