'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders
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| Once a Windows machine is infected, it becomes a peer in a peer-to-peer
| botnet controlled by a central server...
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| The botnet stats tracker even logs the version of Windows the infectedc
| lient is running, down to the service pack level. One chart commandeered
| by Stewart showed that Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) machines dominate
| the makeup of the botnet, a clear sign that the latest version of
| Microsoft's operating system is falling prey to attacks.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2060235,00.asp
Related:
Increased spam levels connected with aggressive botnet activities
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| MessageLabs announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence
| Report for October 2006. In this report, MessageLabs highlights the
| sudden increase in spam levels as spammers gear up to the holiday
| season, attributed to a huge rise in recent botnet activities and the
| latest outbreak of the Warezov virus, responsible for dropping an
| aggressive spam Trojan.
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http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=4359
More than 95% of e-mail is 'junk'
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| More than 95% of e-mail is junk, be it spam, error messages or
| viruses, report mail monitoring firms.
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| [...]
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| Further work has shown that most of this junk mail is originating
| on hijacked home computers.
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| E-mail security firm Return Path said 99% of the computers it monitors
| that send mail have been taken over by spammers or virus writers.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5219554.stm
Thanks, Microsoft.
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