Spam Fighters, Go!!!
September 2008
Russian spammers involved in building new botnet for more attacks. According to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Spam Data Mine, the Russian-Georgian Cyber War reached a new height on the morning of August 17, 2008 when over 500 e-mails were received in just 90 minutes at the UAB. The university started receiving poorly crafted e-mails on August 15, 2008, and now they account for five percent of the total spam traffic. Moreover, the e-mails contain attractive headlines such as “Mikheil Saakashvili gay scam - news of the week” that lure victims into reading a phony BBC story on the Georgian President. The link provided in the e-mails takes victim to a Web server loaded with malicious content and it tries to compromise the user’s system. It seems that spammers are trying to build a botnet but the motive behind establishing this network is still unclear. It may be used for launching more attacks against computers of the Georgian government. The director of Product Management with Symantec Security Response said that the malevolent software is a new variant of Trojan.Blusod program, as reported by NetworkWorld. Earlier, spammers used this Trojan to load antivirus program on computers by making users believe that their system infected with virus and the program could clean the problem on charges.
Russian spammers involved in building new botnet for more attacks. According to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Spam Data Mine, the Russian-Georgian Cyber War reached a new height on the morning of August 17, 2008 when over 500 e-mails were received in just 90 minutes at the UAB. The university started receiving poorly crafted e-mails on August 15, 2008, and now they account for five percent of the total spam traffic. Moreover, the e-mails contain attractive headlines such as “Mikheil Saakashvili gay scam - news of the week” that lure victims into reading a phony BBC story on the Georgian President. The link provided in the e-mails takes victim to a Web server loaded with malicious content and it tries to compromise the user’s system. It seems that spammers are trying to build a botnet but the motive behind establishing this network is still unclear. It may be used for launching more attacks against computers of the Georgian government. The director of Product Management with Symantec Security Response said that the malevolent software is a new variant of Trojan.Blusod program, as reported by NetworkWorld. Earlier, spammers used this Trojan to load antivirus program on computers by making users believe that their system infected with virus and the program could clean the problem on charges.
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