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  2. Srizbi botnet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srizbi_botnet

    Through the capture of one of the control servers involved, [26] investigators learned that the spam message had been sent to up to 160 million email addresses by as few as 3,000 bot computers. The spammer has only been identified by his Internet handle "nenastnyj" (Ненастный, means "rainy" or "foul", as in "rainy day, foul weather" in ...

  3. Botnet - Wikipedia

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    A hacker purchases or builds a Trojan and/or exploit kit and uses it to start infecting users' computers, whose payload is a malicious application—the bot. The bot instructs the infected PC to connect to a particular command-and-control (C&C) server. (This allows the botmaster to keep logs of how many bots are active and online.)

  4. Spambot - Wikipedia

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    A spambot is a computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam.Spambots usually create accounts and send spam messages with them. [1] Web hosts and website operators have responded by banning spammers, leading to an ongoing struggle between them and spammers in which spammers find new ways to evade the bans and anti-spam programs, and hosts counteract these methods.

  5. Rustock botnet - Wikipedia

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    Ninety-six servers were in operation at the time of the takedown. [20] When sending spam the botnet uses TLS encryption in around 35 percent of the cases as an extra layer of protection to hide its presence. Whether detected or not, this creates additional overhead for the mail servers handling the spam.

  6. Internet bot - Wikipedia

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    An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, [1] is a software application that runs automated tasks on the Internet, usually with the intent to imitate human activity, such as messaging, on a large scale. [2] An Internet bot plays the client role in a client–server model whereas the server role is usually played by web servers. Internet ...

  7. Grum botnet - Wikipedia

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    Grum relies on two types of control servers for its operation. One type is used to push configuration updates to the infected computers, and the other is used to tell the botnet what spam emails to send. [6] In July 2010, the Grum botnet consisted of an estimated 560,000–840,000 computers infected with the Grum rootkit.

  8. Honeypot (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Spam still flows through open relays, but the volume is much smaller than in 2001-02. While most spam originates in the U.S., [16] spammers hop through open relays across political boundaries to mask their origin. Honeypot operators may use intercepted relay tests to recognize and thwart attempts to relay spam through their honeypots.

  9. Email-address harvesting - Wikipedia

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    In many jurisdictions there are anti-spam laws in place that restrict the harvesting or use of email addresses. [original research?In Australia, the creation or use of email-address harvesting programs (address harvesting software) is illegal, according to the 2003 anti-spam legislation, only if it is intended to use the email-address harvesting programs to send unsolicited commercial email.

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