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Microsoft ratchets up pressure on Rustock operators

Microsoft continued to put pressure on the operators behind the <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/681040/after-rustock-botnet-rebuilding-underway">Rustock botnet</a>, offering a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or group behind the spamming network.

Pete Davison | 21 Jul | Read more
Rustock botnet goes quiet, reason for takedown unclear

Notorious spam botnet Rustock has gone quiet and security analysts aren't sure why.

Joan Goodchild | 18 Mar | Read more
Security networks send spammers underground

Botnets will employ more obfuscated control techniques including the use of peer-to-peer networks during 2009, according to security researchers, following the [[artid:556517764|McColo datacentre take-down|new]] last year.

Darren Pauli | 28 Jan | Read more

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