'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders (PC Magazine)
16th Nov 2006, 22:34 GMT
PC Magazine - The recent surge in e-mail spam hawking penny stocks and penis enlargement pills is the handiwork of Russian hackers running a 70,000-strong botnet powered by hijacked computers in more than 160 countries.
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