Multiple sources, starting with tech reporter Brian Krebs, are reporting that Rustock, just recently the world's biggest and baddest botnet, has ceased sending spam. The result, for now, is a drop in ...

Everyone who uses e-mail got a special little gift on December 25. You may not have noticed it in all the holiday excitement, but the global spam level dropped significantly because the Rustock botnet ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rustock, one of the oldest and most prolific botnets in Web history, is at it again. According to a blog by NetWitness researcher Alex Cox, Rustock is spouting spam again after a brief respite in 2010 ...

Last Wednesday the Rustock botnet went quiet. Once responsible for 60 percent of the world's spam, its Internet activity ceased completely. The following day, Microsoft revealed that it had brought ...

Berlin, March 14, 2012 – The Rustock botnet, which had been responsible for a large percentage of global pharmaceutical spam and primarily controlled bots in Western Europe and the USA, was shut down ...

Microsoft on Thursday wrapped up its civil case against the still-unnamed controllers of the Rustock botnet and handed off the information gleaned during its investigation to the FBI. But the move ...

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 ...

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 ...