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Researchers map out hard-to-kill, multi-layered spam botnet (Help Net Security)

2015-11-04 08:00

A dropper component sent to the Akamai researchers led them to the discovery of a spamming botnet that consists of at least 83,000 compromised systems. The botnet is multi-layered, decentralized, a...

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