For the second month in a row, Microsoft has tried to eradicate a mutating rootkit that has blocked some Windows users from installing security updates. According to the Microsoft Malware Prevention ...

Microsoft just released its May Threat Report, and the results should give you pause. With nearly 2 million infected systems cleaned, the nefarious Alureon rootkit came out on top. Since it first ...

Microsoft late on Wednesday confirmed that a rootkit caused Windows PCs to crash after users applied a security patch issued last week. Only systems infected with the Alureon rootkit were ...

H8SRT (Known as Alureon in some places) drops the FakeCog Ransomware and at least one keylogger.<BR><BR>It is not a sophisticated rootkit and contains little in the way of self-defence, though it will ...

The company also issued a scanning tool users can run to determine whether their PCs are infected with the rootkit before they attempt to download and install MS10-015. The tool doesn't scrub Alureon ...

A new version of the malware that crippled Windows PCs last February sidesteps safeguards designed to block rootkits from hijacking machines running 64-bit editions of Windows, researchers said ...

Microsoft has re-released a troublesome Patch Tuesday update that was, in part, causing XP machines to crash. As of today, MS10-015 will be once again pushed out to Windows users through Automatic ...

Millions of PCs around the world appear to have been quietly infected by the dangerous TDSS ‘super-malware’ rootkit as part of a campaign to build a giant new botnet, researchers from security firm ...

The Alureon botnet is well-protected against attacks from law enforcement, anti-virus software, and other botnet owners, according to researchers from Kaspersky Labs. Peer-to-peer connections will ...

Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer’s Master Boot Record (MBR) in order to achieve persistence. The Master Boot ...