
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 Spamru 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.Ӡ is includes
targeting ...