Grum botnet
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The Grum botnet, also known by its alias Tedroo, is a botnet mostly involved in sending pharmaceutical spam e-mails
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The Grum botnet consists of an estimated 560,000-840,000 computers infected with the Grum rootkit
. The botnet itself delivered about 39.9 billion spam messages in March, 2010, which equals about 26% of the total global spam volumes, temporally making it the worlds largest botnet. The botnet itself seems to be growing, as its output increased roughly 51% compared to its output in 2009 and early 2010.
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 Grum botnet consists of an estimated 560,000-840,000 computers infected with the Grum rootkit
Rootkit
A rootkit is software that enables continued privileged access to a computer while actively hiding its presence from administrators by subverting standard operating system functionality or other applications...
. The botnet itself delivered about 39.9 billion spam messages in March, 2010, which equals about 26% of the total global spam volumes, temporally making it the worlds largest botnet. The botnet itself seems to be growing, as its output increased roughly 51% compared to its output in 2009 and early 2010.