Microsoft offers $250,000 bounty for Rustock operators

Microsoft may have incapacitated the notorious Rustock botnet this year, but the company is still hunting those who were running the show. In March, Redmond paired up with federal law enforcement agents to seize computer equipment from US Internet hosting facilities to cripple the million-machine-strong network. Besides accounting for a sizable portion of the world's spam, Rustock committed other crimes, including advertising counterfeit or unapproved versions of pharmaceuticals, and violating the trademarks of Pfizer and Microsoft.
Only two weeks after being taken offline, global spam rates declined some 33.6% according to a Symantec MessageLabs Intelligence report. There are still hundreds... »read more

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