New Botnet Overtakes Storm
Filed in archive Spam News by Sue Walsh on February 02, 2008

, to trick recipients into opening the message, and comes with a Trojan designed to add the recipient's computer to the botnet.
"[Mega-D] probably started about four months ago and it's been steadily increasing since then," said Bradley Anstis, vice-president of products at Marshal, a security vendor."It is possible that the individuals behind the Storm botnet are responsible for one or more of these other botnets."Marshal now estimates the Storm worm's botnet is now responsible for just 2% of the world's spam.
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