Anti-Georgia spammers building new botnet

Hackers targeting Georgia in the midst of its conflict with Russia have started sending out a new batch of malicious spam messages, apparently with the aim of building a new botnet network of remote-controlled computers.

[IDG] Hackers targeting Georgia in the midst of its conflict with Russia have started sending out a new batch of malicious spam messages, apparently with the aim of building a new botnet network of remote-controlled computers.The poorly worded messages started going out early Friday morning, and now make up close to five percent of the spam traffic measured by the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Spam Data Mine, according to Gary Warner, a director of computer research and forensics at the university. That’s about a third of the volume of the CNN- and MSNBC-related spam that has been flooding inboxes this week, but it’s still significant, he said.
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