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Botnet masters hide command and control server inside Tor network
ComputerworldUK A botnet that is controlled by attackers from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service inside the Tor anonymity network has been identified by security researchers from German antivirus vendor G Data Software. This strategy … |
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How the world's largest spam botnet was brought down
The Verge Android Army. 2692 posts (7 new) … Eight months ago, the Grum botnet was estimated to be the largest in the world, pumping out a third of the global volume of spam email. But things changed over the following six months as Atif Mushtaq, senior staff … Grum: Inside The Takedown Of One Of The World's Biggest Spam Networks |
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Spamhaus declares Grum botnet dead, but Festi surges
PC Advisor A relatively new botnet has taken up the slack left by the shutdown in July of another major spamming botnet called Grum, according to the junk mail fighting organization Spamhaus. Related … How to Use Your Android Tablet as a Secondary Display. 5: … |
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Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run
Threatpost (blog) It's not every day that you get a security story that involves Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, but that's what has happened with the claims from a Microsoft official that there was an Android-based botnet in existence sending spam from compromised devices. Yahoo! mail app may be behind Android spam |