Today, you may have read in the Wall Street Journal about an operation Microsoft has been conducting against the Win32/Waledac botnet. If you haven’t already seen the article, you can find additional information in the Microsoft on the Issues blog. In...

Well, it had to happen eventually. One of the oldest tricks used by rogue antivirus products is to use a similar name as, or have a similar look and feel to, legitimate security software. It’s been commonplace for them to mimic the Windows Security Center...

With the Winter Olympics in the news for the past couple of weeks, malware profiteers, as usual, are hard at work churning their "little greased wheels", looking to capitalize on any opportunity to get the slightest hint of public attention. Their strategy...

The Win32/Alureon family of malware is a complex set of components which perform various functions. These include the modification of DNS settings, search hijacking, and click fraud. Alureon has existed for several years and has undergone a number of...

It's just a few more days before Valentine's Day. As most people now are already preparing their celebration, malware authors are also getting ready to use this popular event to target users with their malicious intent. Here's one example of a malicious...

This month we add another bot family to MSRT – Win32/Pushbot . Pushbot is, in many ways, an “old school” bot. It is controlled through IRC, it can distribute itself through several different channels and its source code is more or less open (for those...

In a previous blog , I mentioned a family of malware named Dogrobot, which attempts to penetrate the protection offered by particular hardware that is widely used in Internet cafés in China. Interestingly, we recently discovered a trojan, TrojanDownloader...