CSOonline

Rustock Botnet: Dead, or just dazed?

The Rustock botnet–one of the most prolific sources of spam–went silent this week. Microsoft worked with security vendors and the civil court system to pull the plug on Rustock. Some security experts ...
Dark Reading

Microsoft Offers $250,000 Bounty To ID Rustock Botnet Operators

The effort to unmask and apprehend the criminals behind the massive Rustock botnet heated up today as Microsoft put up a $250,000 reward for new information on the botnet's operators. Rustock -- which ...
CSOonline

Rustock botnet goes quiet, reason for takedown unclear

Notorious spam botnet Rustock has gone quiet and security analysts aren’t sure why. Researchers with Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence, citing a Brian Krebs post on KrebsonSecurity, said the botnet ...
Computerworld

After Rustock, botnet rebuilding underway

In March, Microsoft, the U.S. Federal Marshal service and security firm FireEye took down the Rustock botnet, a network of a million compromised computers surreptitiously managed by a group of ...
Dark Reading

Botnet Postmortem: Rustock Now Less Than Half The Size It Was At Takedown

It has been four months since Microsoft and federal authorities knocked the prolific spamming botnet Rustock offline, and some 700,000 of the estimated 1.6 million bots worldwide are still infected ...
PC World

With Rustock, a New Twist on Fighting Internet Crime

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 ...
CRN

Spam E-Mail On Holiday: Rustock Botnet Spam Hits Sudden Low

Spam e-mail volumes dropped to a new low over the holiday season, sinking to their lowest levels since the November 2008 shuttering of rogue ISP McColo, Symantec security researchers found. According ...
CRN

Microsoft, Feds Deep-Six Rustock Botnet

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 ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft offers bounty in hunt for Rustock spambot operators

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 ...
Krebs on Security

Homegrown: Rustock Botnet Fed by U.S. Firms

Aaron Wendel opened the doors of his business to some unexpected visitors on the morning of Mar. 16, 2011. The chief technology officer of Kansas City based hosting provider Wholesale Internet found ...
The Business Journals

Microsoft hands Rustock botnet operators case over to FBI

Microsoft says it has won its civil case against the Rustock botnet operators and is turning evidence it gathered over to the FBI for a possible criminal case. In a blog post Thursday, Richard ...