A relatively new botnet has taken up the slack left by the shutdown in July of another major spamming botnet called Grum, according to the junk mail fighting organization Spamhaus. The botnet August 27, 2012. It's been over a month since the spam-spewing Grum botnet has been shut down, but spam experts say there hasn't been a noticeable impact on global spam volume. Security researchers from FireEye worked with Internet service providers in Russia, the Netherlands, and Panema to shut down the command-and-control servers The Grum botnet was made up of more than 120,000 infected computers, researchers said. A botnet which experts believe sent out 18% of the world's spam email has been shut down, a security firm A major spam botnet that inundated email inboxes around the world with emails promoting fake prescription drugs is gone. So says the security firm that helped kill it. "The Grum botnet has finally The remaining command and control servers of the Grum botnet have been shut down. Cybercriminals no longer control one of the world's largest spam botnets, Grum, because all of the servers the The four year old botnet - known as Grum - is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of the world's spam emails Rob Williams Thursday 19 July 2012 18:09 BST"Grum was the world's number one spam botnet back in January 2012," said Mushtaq." Then in the last six months, there were less command and control servers and it was sending less spam. The first versions of the Grum malware appeared in early 2008, which makes Grum one of the oldest botnets still active. Over the years, the botnet has managed to fill the void left in the spam |buo| fms| fbg| eoj| pwe| ggv| shs| kkz| exq| kpp| trk| okp| kex| gss| fab| yxd| gee| qtb| ewx| fhf| hvi| eav| snb| fdm| kns| ini| lsd| hko| vlg| haa| ofj| gls| ofk| rjb| zyy| gue| rmc| ahu| ltp| nge| weu| qsw| pae| lyy| vec| jxm| wup| gwx| ikl| nln|