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Sunday, October 22, 2006

Botnet spam tricks are bad for business

Look out folks, the SpamThru Trojan which has been out in the wild for some months has just got even more dangerous, or so my security vendor research lab insiders tell me, and it was already one mean mother. The latest version of the thing has all the trappings of being backed by one of the better funded criminal gangs, it is no script kit concoction that is for sure, despite it being based on an already existing exploit.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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