TAG | Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Wednesday, 25 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 The resulting website victims are taken to is a clone of
Classmates.com, and instructs them to run a Flash video player which
is, of course, the executable nasty instead.There is little doubting, then, that Srizbi is one of the biggest threats to Internet users today. "We are trying to work with other security researchers to raise the profile of Srizbi and the threat it represents" Hay told us, adding "in contrast, the Storm botnet receives more research and media attention yet its impact is now bordering on insignificant." With Srizbi accounting for distributing some 46 percent of all the spam that flows through the TRACE labs, let's hope the campaign is successful.
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