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Information Technology News Kraken botnet evolving, says PC Tools
Information Technology News Kraken botnet evolving, says PC Tools | Kraken botnet evolving, says PC Tools |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 29 April 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Other characteristics of the malware include the use of encryption and pseudo-random dynamic DNS names to communicate with control centres, and the possible use of MSN Messenger as well as email to spread itself (using sef-extracting files masked as JPEG images).Featured Whitepaper
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"We've observed evidence of Kraken-based compromises in at least 50 of the Fortune 500,” said Paul Royal, principal researcher at Damballa. Company officials predicted the number would rise to over 600,000 by mid-April, and noted that a infected computer had been seen to send as many as half a million spam emails in one day. PC Tools officials say fresh infections have recently been detected in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australasia and Africa. |
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