Donbot botnet
| Bonbot | |
|---|---|
| Alias | Buzus and Bachsoy |
| Type | Botnet |
Donbot,also known by its aliasesBuzusandBachsoy,[1]is abotnetmostly involved in sending pharmaceutical and stock-basede-mail spam.[2][3]
The Donbot botnet is thought to consist of roughly 125,000 individual computers,[2]which together send 800 million spam messages a day.[4]This amount equals about 1.3% of the estimated total global spam volume[5]of 230 billion messages a day,[6]though the botnet has known spikes where it accounted for up to 4% of the total spam volume.[7]
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- ^"Donbot".M86 Security. April 20, 2009.RetrievedJuly 30,2010.
- ^abStewart, Joe (2009-01-13)."Spam Botnets to Watch in 2009 | Dell SecureWorks".Secureworks.com.Dell.Archived fromthe originalon 2010-11-30.Retrieved2014-01-09.
- ^Aharon Etengoff (August 28, 2009)."Nefarious Donbot spews URL-shortened spam".TG Daily.RetrievedJuly 30,2010."'Donbot' launches pump-and-dump run > Botnet > Vulnerabilities & Exploits > News > SC Magazine Australia/NZ ".Securecomputing.net.au. Archived fromthe originalon August 29, 2010.RetrievedJuly 30,2010.
- ^"The top 10 spam botnets: New and improved | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com".Blogs.techrepublic.com.com. February 25, 2010. Archived fromthe originalon August 29, 2012.RetrievedJuly 30,2010.
- ^"Rustock - The King of All Other Botnets".SPAMfighter. January 1, 1990.RetrievedJuly 30,2010.
- ^"The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets".Networkworld.com. Archived fromthe originalon October 12, 2012.RetrievedJuly 30,2010.
- ^Shaun Nichols in San Francisco."Botnet begins social networking spam run - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com".V3.co.uk.RetrievedJuly 30,2010.
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