A prominent security researcher today said he doubts Microsoft’s take-down of the Waledac botnet would have any impact on spam levels, as the company claimed. “Waledac just is not a hugely prolific ...

Microsoft has several other botnets in its crosshairs, and believes it can use the same legal tactic against them that it deployed last week to strike at the Waledac botnet’s command-and-control ...

Microsoft on Monday said it had used a federal court order to break up a Russian botnet that could’ve disrupted the upcoming U.S. election by installing ransomware on government computer systems. The ...

‘Our disruption is intended to disable ZLoader’s infrastructure and make it more difficult for this organized criminal gang to continue their activities,’ Microsoft says in a blog post. Microsoft took ...

(TNS) — A week after Microsoft Corp. led a global attack against one of the world's most prolific malware groups, the company says it's winning an ongoing battle to temporarily destabilize the ...

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Continuing its legal assault on botnet operators and the hosting companies that the criminals use for their activities, Microsoft has announced new actions against a group of people it contends are ...

For the last four years, Microsoft has been combating the actions of an infamous botnet called Trickbot, one of the world's leading distributors of ransomware. Unlike the usual public match gaming ...

For the fifth time in three years Microsoft has stepped in to take down a botnet, this time malware called Nitol that was infecting new machines bought in China. A U.S. court has allowed the company ...

Microsoft has seen a 254% increase in activity over the past few months from XorDDoS, a roughly eight-year-old network of infected Linux machines that is used for distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...

Employees had tracked the group, believed to be based in Russia, as it hijacked nine million computers around the world to send spam emails meant to defraud unsuspecting victims. By David E. Sanger ...