The ZeroAccess botnet, disrupted by Microsoft in 2013, has risen up once more to commit click-fraud and data theft. Originally discovered in 2013, the ZeroAccess botnet -- also known as Sirefef -- ...
Authorities in Europe joined Microsoft Corp. this week in disrupting “ZeroAccess,” a vast botnet that has enslaved more than two million PCs with malicious software in an elaborate and lucrative ...
A peer-to-peer botnet called ZeroAccess came out of a six-month hibernation this month after having survived two takedown attempts by law enforcement and security researchers. At its peak in 2013, ...
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 ...
You’d think a nefarious slice of software designed to frustrate a practice plenty of us dislike — web ads — might engender cheers and well wishes. But no, the ZeroAccess botnet is hardly so noble: a ...
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Sometimes it’s hard to imagine just how contagious a botnet can be, and ...
The cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by ...
Microsoft said late Thursday that it executed a concerted action with Europol against the servers and domains controlled by the Sirefef or ZeroAccess botnet. The botnet, responsible for hijacking ...
Microsoft announced on Thursday that its Digital Crimes Unit - in conjunction with the FBI, Europol's EC3 and technology companies such as A10 Networks - has disrupted a botnet that targets search ...
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 cybercriminals behind ZeroAccess, one of the largest botnets in existence, have lost access to more than a quarter of the infected machines they controlled because of an operation executed by ...
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