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Security Researchers Collaborated to Take Down Grum
Dec 26, 2012Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world's third-largest botnet of hijacked computers. The Grum botnet is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of global spam, or 18 billion spam messages a day. ...
Tags: Security Researchers, Grum, hijacked computers, global spam, spam messages
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One of The World's Most Active Spam Botnets Was Crippled
Dec 26, 2012IDG News Service - One of the world's most active spam botnets -- Grum -- was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. ...
Tags: spam botnets, Netherlands, FireEye, security
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Cybercriminals No Longer Control One of The World's Largest Spam Botnets,Grum
Dec 20, 2012Cybercriminals no longer control one of the world's largest spam botnets, Grum, because all of the servers the botnet relied on for receiving commands were shut down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. The last Grum ...
Tags: Cybercriminals, spam botnets, Grum, servers