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August 22, 2011

Uptick in botnet spam

By laura
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22August

There’s been a heavy uptick in botnet spam over the last few days, judging by things I’m hearing and my own mailboxes. There are a few common subject lines, but all of them are trying to get recipients to either run programs or visit malicious web pages. The first subject line I’m seeing a lot of is “<name> wants to be friends with you on facebook!” In my...

March 28, 2011

News about the Rustock takedown

By laura
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28March

Spam levels plummeted 2 weeks ago as the Rustock botnet was beheaded. Reports have been trickling out in the press about the takedown, about the botnet and about the team responsible. Rustock Takedown Analysis at The Register Brian Krebs’ intitial report of the takedown Taking down botnets from a Microsoft attorney Spam Network Shut Down at the Wall Street Journal Global Spam Levels Graph...

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