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Stories about: rustock

Cybercriminals Move Fast as McColo Takes a Short Breath of Air McColo has succeeded to strike a deal with an unsuspecting uplink provider, and got back online for a short period of time. Even if it lasted only a few hours, the uptime allowed botnet herders to push updates and relocate some of their control servers.The sudden takedown of the McColo hosting provider last week took... 17 November 2008 06:16 GMT Two Major Botnets Possibly Controlled by the Same Bot Herder It has been discovered that two of the botnets that are responsible for the largest number of spam attacks, Srizbi and Rustock, share the same principle when it comes to malware spreading. They both use Trojan.Exchanger, a type of malware that comes with unsolicited email. Each time users decide to check what's ... 21 August 2008 08:32 GMT Spam Galore from Just Six Botnets The all so hated billions of spam messages are coming from a surprisingly small number of zombie networks, also known as botnets, according to net security firm Marshall, who analyzed the numbers. There is a big variation from each and every one of the group, but the metrics for the passed month indicate that 85 perc... 3 March 2008 15:31 GMT