Rustock & Other Major Spam Botnets That Unleashed Their Zombie Armies On To The Web
posted by Damien Ramé in All about Spam on Jun 14, 2011
When the infamous Rustock botnet was taken down, it helped reduce one third of all junk email being sent. Botnets are responsible for an average of 88% of all spam sent globally. For anyone new to the term, a botnet is essentially a network of infected computers (i.e. zombie computers) operated by criminal entities, which are programmed to perform malicious tasks or functions.
Though Rustock was ousted, new botnets emerge every year which is why it is so vital to keep your anti-spam software up-to-date. As computers have become more sophisticated, so have the attacks against them. And, as broadband connections rise, so are the numbers of victims of malicious attacks. With the abundance of worms, Trojans and viruses crawling our digital space through harmful botnets, part of our responsibility in owning a computer is being aware of its vulnerabilities.
Preview some of the major spam botnets that unleashed their zombie armies on to the web. To read more, please click here.
| 1. Rustock Year Detected: 2006 Origin: Russia |
2. Cutwail/Pushdo Trojan Year detected: 2007 Origin: Russia |
3. Conficker Year Detected: 2008 Origin: Ukraine |
4. Grum/Tedroo Year detected: 2007 Origin: Russia |
| 5. Zeus Year detected: 2007 Origin: Eastern Europe |
6. BredoLab (aka Oficla) Year detected: 2009 Origin: Russia |
7. Bagle Year detected: 2004 Origin: Germany |
Read the complete details on the Vircom Blog: Rustock & Other Major Spam Botnets That Unleashed Their Zombie Armies On To The Web
Share this article
|
|
|||
| Share |
|
|
Comments
More Recent News
Writing technical doc
Writing technical documentation should not be a complicated procedure. Remember, you’re not writing a novel. You want to communicate information and procedures in a clear and concise fashion. Sometimes basic short... (May 15, 2012)
Go Postal on Spam
You get it at the office. You get it at home. Postal spam a.k.a. junk mail. Since the late 1800’s flyers, ad-mail, unsolicited magazines and pamphlets have been cluttering up people’s mailboxes and, now, people’s... (May 09, 2012)
Single installer to deploy
With the advent of 64-bit hardware, Microsoft has released a 64-bit version of Windows to leverage the capabilities of these hardware platforms. The new Version has the advantages of addressing more than 4 GB of... (May 03, 2012)
