Today, Microsoft announced plans to release of an out-of-band update to address CVE-2010-2568 (described in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article (2286198) ).  As mentioned earlier this month, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), along with...

"Adun Toridas!" Starcraft fans would recognize that as a famous line from the first Starcraft version, which was released in 1998. Starcraft is a real-time strategy game that became a massive hit worldwide. The release date for its sequel, Starcraft II...

We’ve added detection for two new malware families using the vulnerability described in SA2286198 . The first, Win32/Vobfus, is actually a family of obfuscated worms that has been around since 2009. According to our fellow researcher Marian Radu...

For the past week or so, we've been closely tracking a new family of threats called Stuxnet (a name derived from some of the filename/strings in the malware - mrxcls.sys, mrxnet.sys). In the past few days, it has become a popular topic of discussion amongst...

This month, we added the Bubnix family to the latest Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release. WinNT/Bubnix is a complicated spam bot which arrives on an affected computer by way of a downloader, TrojanDownloader:Win32/Bubnix.A . TrojanDownloader...

Just a quick post here to provide an update on the attack attempts related to the Help and Support Center vulnerability and to stress the importance of applying the critical update made available today, MS10-042 , which fixes the issue for the two vulnerable...

Often you read about how, during major news events, the bad guys have commandeered the search engines so if you go looking for more information about the news event, you end up at a page that’s serving you some malware nowadays -- usually some kind of...