A new Trojan horse is so good at hiding itself that some security researchers claim a new chapter has begun in their battle against malicious-code authors. The new pest, dubbed "Rustock" by Symantec ...

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 ...

That threat, dubbed "Rustock" by Symantec, is a family of backdoor Trojan horses that first appeared nearly a year ago, says Patrick Martin, a senior product manager with the Cupertino, Calif., ...

Unconfirmed reports have been coming in for several days that Microsoft has been surveilling various dark hat security forums, and now security researcher Brian Krebs is reporting that his own ...

According to Krebs, Microsoft has revealed a software engineer and mathematician as a possible suspect in the search for the author of the Rustock spambot – and who aspired to be hired by Google. "In ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, a Microsoft-led action resulted in the Rustock botnet being taken offline. That action is now reaping dividends, as spam levels have dropped by around a third—a welcome, albeit ...