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Fake 'Yahoo sold to Microsoft' spam boosts Rustock botnet
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| A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real
| news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to
| infect users.
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http://www.crn.com.au/News/81143,fake-yahoo-sold-to-microsoft-spam-boosts-rustock-botnet.aspx
Drive-by zombie. Compatible with Microsoft Windows only.
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| George Bush and Microsoft Exploited by Spammers as Malicious Spam Surges to
| Record High
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/george-bush-microsoft-exploited-spammers/story.aspx?guid=%7B3F456920-850A-43AB-9CAE-2F9493FF5235%7D&dist=hppr
http://tinyurl.com/5muhn9
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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