This software giant may have crooks doing hard time. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit was behind an unprecedented takedown of servers powering some of the worst known cybercrime operations today, the ...

A consortium led by Microsoft has struck at the heart of the major cybercrime empire behind the Zeus and SpyEye botnets which have been stealing information for identity theft. On Friday, Microsoft, ...

It’s a seemingly unending battle. Botnets get put up by bad guys, taken down by good guys and are replaced presumably by either the same or newer bad guys. But Microsoft’s highly publicized leadership ...

Two weeks after law enforcement broke up one of the criminal gangs behind the Zeus malware, Microsoft has taken steps to make it harder for criminals to install the software on PCs. On Tuesday, ...

Microsoft, working with financial services organisations and US Marshals, raided two sites on Friday, seizing command and control servers running Zeus botnets used to steal online banking details.

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Microsoft this week identified two individuals who the company said are part of the Zeus banking Trojan and stole more than $100 million. As part of the Microsoft Active Response for Security (MARS) ...

Three months after initially disrupting the Zeus botnet, Microsoft officials have named two of the people who they think are behind the malware network, a pair of Ukrainians who already are sitting in ...

Last Friday saw a months-long Microsoft-led operation come to fruition with the closure of the ZeuS and SpyEye Trojan botnet ending with the coordinated seizure of command-and-control servers across ...

Microsoft continued its war on botnets last week with a raid that involved seizing servers controlling millions of zombie computers caught in the spell of the ZeuS malware. Under a court order, ...

Microsoft, in cooperation with the US Marshals, raided office buildings in Pennsylvania and Illionois, seizing what are believed to be command and control servers for the Zeus family of botnets.

Two weeks after law enforcement broke up one of the criminal gangs behind the Zeus malware, Microsoft has taken steps to make it harder for criminals to install the software on PCs. On Tuesday, ...