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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...