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Independence Day Offer: Spam Edition

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Jul

2011

As most all of us will know, the United States’ Independence Day is on the fourth of July, which is only a few days away. Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, fairs, ceremonies, get togethers, and various other public and private events celebrating the national holiday. Many people also utilize this time […]

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First microblog attack in China

30

Jun

2011

Sina microblog is the biggest microblogging platform in China and is very similar to Twitter. It has more than 140 million users, which is almost 10% of the population of China. On June 28 this year, it was attacked by an XSS worm and more than 30,000 users were affected. The worm aggressively sends out […]

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New Bots, Old Bots II: Donbot

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Jun

2011

Last week we blogged about the rise of two botnets in our spam statistics and provided details of Xarvester. Today, we take a closer look at the other botnet in question: Donbot. Donbot has been around for about three years but lately has surged to the top of our spam statistics chart with masses of […]

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