Lots of people have web-based e-mail addresses, such as Hotmail, Live, or Gmail.  Some of these addresses are used as "throw away" accounts, and abandoned once they are no longer needed.  Others are simply left alone and forgotten...

On Valentine's Day, an anonymous researcher announced a previously undisclosed SMB (Server Message Block) vulnerability affecting the CIFS (Common Internet File System) browser service. Along with the vulnerability, the researcher also posted Proof-of...

Thinking of sending an MMS message to a loved one? Think twice before downloading mobile applications that promise just that. With all the hoopla that this love month already has going on, obviously malware authors are joining in on the bandwagon. Instead...

February 14 is right around the corner and that can mean only one thing- it's time for the RSA conference in San Francisco. This year, Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President of Trustworthy Computing, will present a keynote Tuesday morning at 9am on Collective...

Hello Internet! As you may recall, last October we updated MSRT to include the well-known malware Zbot (aka Zeus), one of the more prolific bots we see in the wild today. Today, we released a special-edition Security Intelligence Report, entitled “...

This month we add another bot to the MSRT family list – Win32/Cycbot . Cycbot was discovered in August 2010 and has quickly become prevalent. It seems that Cycbot’s creators called it “Gbot”, as it used this name as an identifier...

Today, the MSRC is releasing an update to address an Internet Explorer 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2010-3971), originally posted by a researcher to Full Disclosure in early Dec. Since the public disclosure took place, we, along with other MAPP partners,...

As we reported in our most recent Security Intelligence Report , worms have been gaining speed in comparison to 2009. I remember a time when the world thought the day of the worm had come and gone. Although outbreaks that we saw in the Slammer and Blaster...

When rogue security software uses multiple different names for itself, it's not especially noteworthy. In the past we have seen rogues that changed their names almost every day , and even a single rogue executable that could use one of 33 different names...