ITU Corporate Strategy Newslog - Top Spam Botnets Exposed

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Top Spam Botnets Exposed

Date: April 8, 2008

Author: Joe Stewart, Director of Malware Research, SecureWorks

Highlights

Collectively the top botnets are capable of sending over 100 billion spams per day
Srizbi maintains the top spot both in terms of number of bots and spamming capacity
Storm is only a fraction of its former self, and is rapidly becoming a minor player
Bobax, probably the longest-lived of the template-based spamming botnets is still around, and ranks #2 in number of bots
Ozdok/Mega-D is still relatively small in numbers, but makes up for its diminutive size with aggressive amounts of spam sent per bot

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Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:10:55 AM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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