LATENTBOT: Trace Me If You Can

FireEye Labs recently uncovered LATENTBOT, a new, highly obfuscated BOT that has been in the wild since mid-2013. It has managed to leave hardly any traces on the Internet, is capable of watching its victims without ever being noticed, and can even corrupt a hard disk, thus making a PC useless...

Lessons From the Rustock Takedown

As a follow-up to the Rustock botnet news, Microsoft have identified themselves as the key instigators of the takedown. This is the second time Microsoft’s legal team has been actively involved in combating the botnet menace – and they obviously learned from their previous attempt at trying to...