Canning spam, Question No. 5 |
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| 21 Apr 2005 | SearchSecurity.com |
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5.) According to MessageLabs, nearly 70% of all spam and phishing e-mails now originate from vast armies of compromised, robot-like machines. What are these compromised machines called?
Answer from Invasion force:
Attackers can use the bots and their hosts for a variety of purposes, some seemingly innocuous to the compromised enterprise. For instance, botnets have become the distribution method of choice for spam and phishing attacks. According to e-mail security service provider MessageLabs, nearly 70% of all spam and phishing e-mails now originate from botnets. Tracing these attacks is difficult due to the many layers between the source machines and the attacker. (Read the rest of this article.)
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