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Malicious Bots
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Malicious Bots

by Ken Dunham, Jim Melnick
August 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
168 pages
4h 55m
English
Auerbach Publications
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66 Malicious Bots
body part enhancement ads to millions.”* us, the costs to rent some spam botnets
range from several hundred dollars by the hour to as much as several thousand
dollars by the month.
4.11.1 Pump-and-Dump Fraud
In 2006 a Russian gang used the Spamru Trojan to create a 70,000-bot peer-to-peer
botnet. is botnet included anti-virus countermeasures and tracking capabilities.
More importantly, it included a targeted attack component with a “database hacking
component that signaled the ability of the spammers to target its pump-and-dump
sc
ams to victims most likely to be associated with stock trading.”† is includes
targeting ...
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ISBN: 9781420069068