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Microsoft Offers $250,000 for Rustock Botnet Information

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10 months ago
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Microsoft announced yesterday on a Russian newspaper for a reward of $250,000 to whoever gives an information for the arrest and conviction of Rustock Botnet individuals who are involved. The botnet who infected over 1.6M IP addresses on March 2011 was a big threat to everyone and Microsoft focused on taking it down (Operation b107) and reduced 56.12% from March to June 2011.

I just think these guys are another bunch of teenagers who live on their garage with a computer and an internet just like the kid who took down amazon or ebay with a DDoS attack. But these guys are much more into money than fun. They use their infected computers to send spam emails for viagra products or anything they would earn money from any products.


Rustock was coded so good that top anti-viruses won’t even notice the trojan’s arrival. It just sits down on your PC for a couple of days (more…)

Virus Alert: Operation Aurora

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2 years ago
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Beware of this new Trojan that spreads through the internet. It exposes a 0day vulnerability on Microsoft Internet Explorer (CVE-2010-0249) which steals information on corporate networks. It allows remote code execution on infected machines.

What’s 0day?
Well basically it’s a security hole that is discovered by geeks or hackers that there is no available fix or update yet.

Microsoft rated it as Critical and they have already issued a fix on this Trojan. Affected versions are Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, 6, 7 and even Microsoft IE 8. You can view the full list of affected Microsoft Internet Explorers here and also download their updates/fixes on the issue.

If you are using Microsoft IE to browse the web, I suggest you update it before everything else is too late. Or, use an open-source browser like Mozilla Firefox or use Google Chrome. There’s a bunch of free web browsers floating on the web, you just have to choose one. But I suggest those to I’ve just mentioned above, or better yet, update your anti-virus virus databases.

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