According to a report from Symantec, the spam output continued to decline for the fourth month in a row, reaching its lowest level since January 2009."The drop in overall spam volume also brought down the overall spam percentage. Spam made up 84.31 percent of all messages in November, compared with 86.61 percent in O... |
17 December 2010
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Oleg Nikolaenko, the 23-year-old Russian arrested by U.S. authorities under accusations of running the infamous Mega-D spam botnet, pleaded not guilty in a Wisconsin federal court yesterday.The FBI identified Nikolaenko while investigating a major spam network known as Herbal King, which at the time of its shutdo... |
4 December 2010
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The FBI believes that a 23-year-old Russian citizen named Oleg Nikolaenko is the cybercriminal operating Mega-D, the botnet that was once responsible for a third of the world’s spam traffic.According to an affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun, the Russian man who currently resides in Moscow, is the target of a... |
1 December 2010
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One of the Internet's most notorious spam botnets, Mega-D, was severely crippled by researchers from a small security company. The blow was delivered late last week and the millions of junk emails spewed out by the botnet every hour instantly stopped.Mega-D, also known as Ozdok, is a botnet primarily used for sp... |
10 November 2009
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According to a report (PDF) released by MessageLabs, a leader in electronic communications security, the distribution levels of junk e-mails have reached between 80%-90% of what they were before the takedown of the notorious McColo ISP in November. The Mega-D botnet has picked up the previous “market share&rdqu... |
27 January 2009
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As the security researchers speculated back in November, the happy times when fewer junk mails hit our inboxes were not bound to last. Dropping to under 40% of what they were before the takedown of infamous hoster McColo, the spam levels are now at over 60 percent. On November 11, following a collaborative effort fro... |
10 December 2008
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