Global spam volumes have fallen precipitously in the past two months, thanks largely to the cessation of junk e-mail from Rustock – until recently the world’s most active spam botnet. But experts say ...

Earlier this week the computer security and antispam communities were puzzling over the sudden silence of the Rustock botnet, a particularly widespread and aggressive network of captive “zombie” ...

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 ...

The global volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide took a massive nosedive today following what appears to be a coordinated takedown of the Rustock botnet, one of the world’s most active spam-generating ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Microsoft’s stealth attack against the infamous Rustock botnet seems to have worked—the botnet has remained offline. However, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit is still going after the operators, who it ...

*They think they have killed it dead. Wow. That one was a monster. *If the claims in this Rupert Murdoch organ have any connection to reality, we oughta see spam volumes drop drastically. I wouldn't ...

Fighters on the front line against online crime won a big victory yesterday (March 16), as a huge spam network was shut down and spam volume immediately dropped. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Rustock, one of the world's most prolific spam-sending botnets, has gone offline for the second time in three months. The Rustock botnet stopped sending out email on Wednesday, the Composite Blocking ...

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 ...

Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle and focuses on investigations and analysis. He's a former Seattle bureau chief for BusinessWeek and author of the book "Design Is How It Works: How ...

It’s sure to be temporary, but we should enjoy it while we can: Microsoft’s action to behead the Rustock botnet has seen global spam levels drop by about a third, according to Symantec-owned messaging ...