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Botnet Shutdown Success Story: How Kaspersky Lab Disabled the Hlux/Kelihos Botnet

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Sep

2011

Earlier this week, Microsoft released an announcement about the disruption of a dangerous botnet that was responsible for spam messages, theft of sensitive financial information, pump-and-dump stock scams and distributed denial-of-service attacks. Kaspersky Lab played a critical role in this botnet takedown initiative, leading the way to reverse-engineer the bot malware, crack the communication protocol […]

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What’s On the Spammers’ Menu This Holiday Season?

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Sep

2011

The holiday season is about to commence and spammers have resurfaced with new offers well in advance. We have already observed spam for Christmas and New Year in the month of September, not to mention spam for Halloween, which is fast approaching! So, what’s on the spammers’ holiday menu? Well, there are virus e-cards, bogus […]

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100 texts a day limit? India tries to combat mobile phone spam

27

Sep

2011

New spam regulations, introduced in India, limit the users of mobile phones to sending only 100 texts per day. The reason? To stop the growing problem of SMS text spam. Cellphone usage is huge in India, with more than 700 million subscribers. But with that popularity comes the problem of users being constantly plagued with […]

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