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2015-06-04 21:05
The latest campaign to leverage Skype – a botnet circulating adware, composed entirely of Skype users - was recently disrupted by researchers.
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The latest campaign to leverage Skype – a botnet circulating adware, composed entirely of Skype users - was recently disrupted by researchers.