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'rustock'
DIY satirical Sality takedown posted to Full Disclosure
Don't try this at home.
Darren Pauli
Mar 29 2012 5:39PM
Security
Microsoft passes Rustock evidence to FBI
Civil case win a death knell for spammers.
Angela Moscaritolo
Sep 26 2011 10:26AM
Security
Microsoft offers $250k reward for Rustock masterminds
Redmond renews push to catch Rustock creators.
Dan Kaplan
Jul 19 2011 2:47PM
Financial Services
Microsoft offers $235K bounty on Rustock masterminds
Redmond determined to crush world's biggest botnet.
Dan Kaplan
Jul 19 2011 10:02AM
Security
Legacy of monster botnet fading
More than half of Rustock-infected machines have been cleaned, but 100,000 computers remain in India.
Dan Kaplan
Jul 6 2011 9:21PM
Security
Microsoft names Rustock botnet leader suspects
One hoped to work for Google.
Liam Tung
Jun 3 2011 11:12AM
Security
Microsoft to crack open Rustock's servers
1.7 million IP addresses still calling home.
Liam Tung
Apr 11 2011 5:57AM
Security
Bagle to succeed Rustock as spam king?
There may be a new botnet spamming king in town in the form of Bagle.
Tom Brewster
Mar 30 2011 7:14AM
Security
Analysis: Life after Rustock
Is this the end of spam as we know it?
Tom Brewster
Mar 28 2011 9:51AM
Security
Microsoft details Rustock botnet takedown
A million bots at a loose end, still infected.
Liam Tung
Mar 21 2011 5:38AM
Security
Mega-botnet Rustock stops spamming
Rustock, the once dominant spam botnet, seems to have been taken out of contention.
Tom Brewster
Mar 18 2011 6:50AM
Networking
Rustock botnet back in action
Poised to return to pre-Christmas spam output levels.
Angela Moscaritolo
Jan 13 2011 1:37PM
Security
Grum and Rustock botnets drive spam to new levels
Overall junk email levels rose five per cent in February.
Shaun Nichols
Mar 2 2010 1:27PM
Security
Ya!Bucks spreads malicious executable files
Claims that program rewards installing malware.
Dan Raywood
Sep 2 2009 11:14AM
Security
Spam and scareware on the rise in 2009
A 60 per cent increase in spam volumes has resulted in spam now representing 90 per cent of all inbound email, according to the TRACElabs report on the first half of 2009 from Marshal8e6.
SC Australia Staff
Jul 14 2009 10:17AM
Security
Fake 'Yahoo sold to Microsoft' spam boosts Rustock botnet
A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to infect users.
Staff Writers
Jul 25 2008 2:40PM
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