Deconstructing a Pump-and-Dump Spam Botnet

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 17, 2006 @03:12AM from the gaah-scary-graphics dept.

Behind the Front writes "eWeek has teamed up with Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher at SecureWorks in Atlanta, to show the inner working of a massive botnet that is responsible for the recent surge of 'pump and dump' spam. It's a detailed picture of how these sleazy operations work and why they're so hard to shut down. Sobering numbers: 70,000 infected machines capable of pumping out a billion messages a day, virtually all of them for penis enlargement and stock scams. Excellent graphics, too, including one chart that shows that Windows XP Service Pack 2 is hosting nearly half the attacked machines."

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Re:Rebuild the email protocol by eggstasy · 2006-11-17 05:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Pssst... some of us unamerican folks actually cycle on a daily basis. Imagine that! Could you believe that in many european cities cycling is the default means of transportation, and there are ZERO gigantic SUVs?
The shock, the horror!
Re:how effective is it? by Kookus · 2006-11-17 07:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Are these the statistics for SCO's stock?