Aggressive Botnet Activities Behind Spam Increase

An anonymous reader writes, "A spam-sending Trojan dubbed 'SpamThru' is responsible for a vast amount of the recent botnet activity which has significantly increased spam levels to almost three out of every four emails. The developers of SpamThru employed numerous tactics to thwart detection and enhance outreach, such as releasing new strains of the Trojan at regular intervals in order to confuse traditional anti-virus signatures detection." According to MessageLabs (PDF), another contributor to the recent spam increase is a trojan dropper called "Warezov."

Hold On Here

[eldavojohn]

Now, I know what you're going to say, you're going to say this is a dupe of last week's story, Bot Nets Behind Recent Spam Surge [slashdot.org], but it's not. You see, this is Aggressive Botnet Activities Behind Spam Incease. And it's no longer recent--it's a week old.

So you can call this a dupe, but as you can see, this has clearly changed status from recent to aggressive. Or maybe like code orange to code red, DHS style.

But please, feel free to karma whore the comments from the old discussion into this one. Seriously, anyone get any new information on this? We've got a named virus but is there anything else new?

human error

[varunvnair]

And human error behind typo "incease"!

Re:Someone's making a lot of money from this

[isometrick]

Hmmm...

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Re:dupe checking

[sootman]

Actually, there are protections in place, but Aggressive Botnet Activities are Behind this Dupe Increase. You just can't fight numbers!

So how do you get rid of !itsatrap?

[yeremein]

Do we need to tag !!itsatrap?

Re:Don't blame the victim!

[mrroot]

Take the EGLY.OB example (heh, it's up 6% right now).

... So what you're saying is ...

THIS ST()CK is READY TO POP!!!
EGLY.OB IS ABOUT TO BLOW YOUR MINDS!
WATCH OUT HERE IT COMES!
DONT BE LEFT OUT!