This month, we added Win32/Tracur and Win32/Dursg, two of the most prevalent pieces of malware belonging to the category of 'web redirectors', to our Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT). After just over two weeks in release, we have early numbers on...

I'm very excited to announce that today, the MMPC is opening a new research and response lab in Munich, Germany! Why Munich? Well, this central location in Europe enables the MMPC to be more agile in responding to threats across Europe, the Middle...

The recent emergence of rogue security software applications for Mac demonstrates how cybercriminals effectively use social engineering techniques to manipulate users’ responses - specifically, exploiting user’s fear of revealing sensitive information...

Nowadays, when people want to download software, they usually search for it using a search engine that leads them to a download site. But some software on these sites may be harmful. In China, more and more software package authors are using these download...

Late last week, the MMPC officially launched its Facebook page and its Twitter account . From this Welcome page, you can read our latest blog posts, see our latest Twitter feeds, and find out what threats most affect your desktop. You can also...

The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) targets two prevalent families in this July 2011 release, Win32/Tracur and Win32/Dursg . Both families share common functionality that monitors user web search queries and redirects to a malicious URL to display...

Would you like to know more about the MMPC, and how we protect computer users worldwide? We have released new versions of two whitepapers which describe how the MMPC operates, and provide an introduction to the antimalware technologies that the MMPC supports...

In an effort to continue raising awareness about the Rustock botnet that was successfully taken down on March 16th, the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), the Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) and Trustworthy Computing released a new Special...

On June 14, Adobe released updates and a security bulletin (APSB11-18) referencing attacks affecting Adobe Flash Player (versions 10.3.181.23 and earlier). These attacks have been observed as hosted on webpages containing malformed SWF files. We spent...