Donbot botnet
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Donbot, also known by its aliases Buzus and Bachsoy, is a botnet
mostly involved in sending pharmaceutical and stock-based e-mail spam
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The Donbot botnet is thought to consist of roughly 125,000 individual computers, which combined send 800 million spam messages a day. This amount equals about 1.3% of the estimated total global spam volume of 230 billion messages a day, though the botnet has known spikes where it accounted for up to 4% of the total spam volume.
Botnet
A botnet is a collection of compromised computers connected to the Internet. Termed "bots," they are generally used for malicious purposes. When a computer becomes compromised, it becomes a part of a botnet...
mostly involved in sending pharmaceutical and stock-based e-mail spam
E-mail spam
Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email , is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. One subset of UBE is UCE...
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The Donbot botnet is thought to consist of roughly 125,000 individual computers, which combined send 800 million spam messages a day. This amount equals about 1.3% of the estimated total global spam volume of 230 billion messages a day, though the botnet has known spikes where it accounted for up to 4% of the total spam volume.