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New SPAM BotNet increase Spam Volume 10 folds |
TNTmax SPAM filtering team has been dealing with spam from 3 botnets: Srizbi' and 'Rustock', and the new, unamed one (which grew out of the latest Windows vulnerability). We estimate they almost 1.5 million zombies combined. McColo went down and they dropped of for a couple of days, but now they are back and causing trouble for Christmas during the shopping holidays. All ISPs are getting hit
Here are some links:
Stats:
http://atlas.arbor.net/summary/botnets
News:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=678645
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=107872
General Info:
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Information.Botnets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnets
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