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Posted by Dan Lanciani on April 13, 2009, 10:50 pm
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|COMPUTERWORLD / Security
|April 10, 2009
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|Conficker botnet could flood Web with spam
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| It could send billions of messages daily,
| says Russian security researcher
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|By
|Gregg Keizer
[...]
|Gostev also noted that almost every message contained a unique domain
|in the embedded link, a tactic spammers sometimes use to side-step
|antispam filters, which analyze the frequency that any one domain is
|used. "We detected the use of 40,542 third-level domains and 33
|second-level domains," said Gostev. "They all belonged to spammers
|and the companies that ordered these mailings."
If they know which companies ordered the mailings why don't they go
after them (or at least list them)?
|Most of the domains are hosted in China, he added.
This seems carefully worded to make the perpetrators appear out of
reach. Who cares where the domains are hosted? I want to know where
those companies that ordered the mailings are incorporated.
Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com
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