Tag: Botnet
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More evidence of Bitcoin bubble
Few things attract fraudsters more than bubbles. When the market is rising then their crimes get hidden – especially as those speculating in the market are unlikely to want to have its legitimacy called into question. So too with Bitcoin – the BBC reports that the ever inflating bubble in Bitcoin has attracted the criminals…
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Seven years of spamming
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft did the world a favour, taking down the Rustock botnet and reportedly reducing the volume of spam email worldwide by a third. Thew new chief botnet out there is “bagle” – and this is not such a great story. Because the bagle botnet – generally thought to have, at…
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