The Top 10 Botnets
Continue Reading Add comment March 9th, 2010
Latest reports have spam accounting for more than 95 percent of all email messages. You can thank botnets for most of that. Here’s what we’re up against.
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Which botnet sends the most spam, P 3
Continue Reading Add comment March 5th, 2010
In part 1 of my series, I looked at which botnet sends the most spam, by total number of messages sent at the recipient level and not the envelope level. In part 2, I looked at which one sends the most spam by total amount of bytes that they emit.
Which Botnet Sends the Most Spam? P 2
Continue Reading Add comment March 3rd, 2010
There are a couple of ways to measure which botnet sends the most spam. On the one hand, botnets can send 1 spam message but address it to a lot of different recipients, thus putting the cost of delivery heavily onto the recipient.
Which botnet sends the most spam?
Continue Reading Add comment March 3rd, 2010
Around the Internet, and even on this blog, various analyses have been done on botnets and which one is responsible for sending the most spam. Whether it’s Rustock, Cutwail, or one of the new kids on the block (grum, gheg, or donbot), I don’t really see any consensus on which one is the spammiest.
Stimulus packages, stock brokers and Trojans, Oh My!
Continue Reading Add comment March 3rd, 2009
Malware called Tigger/Syzor which is a safe mode rootkit password stealing Trojan that targets day traders.
MS09-002 exploit in the wild
Continue Reading Add comment February 19th, 2009
The Internet Storm Center is reporting that several AV vendors have confirmed that the recently patch IE 7 vulnerability (MS-09-002 Uninitialized Memory Corruption) has been reverse engineered by the malware writers (so quickly!)
Are you ready to see your spam volume Jump 10 times?
Continue Reading Add comment January 26th, 2009
It took less than 3 months for the Spammers to ramp up their production to 90% of where it was pre-McColo takedown in November 2008 according to a number of reports and graphs available online.
Lance Atkinson only fined $63,400 USD by New Zealand because he ‘co-operated with authorities
Continue Reading Add comment December 23rd, 2008
Lance Atkinson, a prolific spammer since 2005 as part of ‘HerbalKing’ the
‘#1 worst spam gang of 2007, 2008′ according to the Spamhaus ROSKO list has been fined only $92,715 AUS (about $63,400 USD) by authorities because, according to Justice Christine French of the High Court in Christchurch, of the co-operation and candor of Lance in the early stages of the investigation.
Mega-D Botnet back after McColo shutdown
Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008
Well it was a nice but brief vacation from three of the big Botnets as McColo was shut down last month but by all reports the Mega-D botnet looks to be back and at near full strength.
It pays to get a second opinion on Free Online Virus Scanners
Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008
Once in a while – say every 6 months – why not get a second opinion on if your computer is infected with something that your existing anti-virus product may have missed? It is also handy to have a list like this just in case you do notice something wrong with your computer (slowdown or unexpected pop-ups or error messages) and your existing up to date AV solution doesn’t set off the warning sirens.
