The ZeroAccess rootkit isn’t the most well-known or closely watched piece of malware in recent history, but, as an extremely detailed new analysis of the program shows, it is a perfect example of the ...

Never ones to be left behind as progress marches on, attackers are beginning to develop more and more tools aimed specifically at exploiting 64-bit machines. The latest entry into the field is an x64 ...

What's the best way to stop a botnet? Try taking it apart to see how it works. At least, that's been the approach undertaken by malware expert Giuseppe Bonfa at InfoSec Institute, an information ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Researchers at InfoSec Institute deconstructed ZeroAccess, ...

At the end of spring 2012, the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef (also known as ZeroAccess) was updated. We began tracking the first updated samples at the beginning of May when a new ...

The year 2011 could be referred to as a year of growth in complex threats. Over the course of this year we witnessed an increase in the number of threats targeting the Microsoft Windows 64-bit ...

A peer-to-peer botnet known for ad-click fraud and estimated at making $100,000 per day for its operator now has infected some 2.2 million users worldwide. New data released today from the third ...

Fast food franchise Pizza Hut has revealed its chain of stores fell victim to a year-long malware campaign in 2013 which hit point of sales systems and caused order transmissions to fail. Details of ...

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Half a million bots enslaved by the highly profitable ZeroAccess botnet have been sinkholed ahead of a pending patch that would have made the strike impossible, Symantec reports. The botnet was one of ...