Major companies hosting spam bots
Zombies in corporate networks spotted pumping out spam.
Network security company Support Intelligence has found evidence of bot-infected zombies
sending spam from within many of the leading corporations on the US Fortune 1000 list.
Monitoring systems are said to have detected spam originating from within networks belonging to
database giant Oracle, hardware and software behemoth HP and leading US electronics
retail chain Best Buy, among many others. A blogger at Support Intelligence has
promised '30 days of
bots', with a new major company revealed to be hosting spam zombies every day.
The first to be discussed in detail is manufacturing colossus 3M, which was found to have a
machine on its network
sending pump-and-dump
image spam. A detailed report on the findings of the survey can be found at
The Register, here.
30 March 2007
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