Virus Bulletin Spam Supplement - June 2009

Editor: Helen Martin

Technical Consultant: John Hawes

Technical Editor: Morton Swimmer

Consulting Editors: Ian Whalley, Nick FitzGerald, Richard Ford, Edward Wilding

2009-06-01

Abstract

Anti-spam news; Where is Waledac? (spambot case study)

News

Phisher gets 8.5 years

Phisher sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for phishing scams that netted him approximately $700,000.

Helen Martin - Virus Bulletin, UK

Spambot case study

Win32/Waledac is a trojan that is used to send spam. It also has the ability to download and execute arbitrary files, harvest email addresses from the local machine, perform denial of service attacks, proxy network traffic and sniff passwords. Scott Wu, Terry Zink and Scott Molenkamp take a detailed look at the spambot.

Scott Wu - Microsoft, USA, Terry Zink - Microsoft, USA & Scott Molenkamp - Microsoft, USA

Calendar

Anti-malware industry events

Must-attend events in the anti-spam industry - dates, locations and further details.

Virus Bulletin

Virus Bulletin - June 2009

Malware without a name is still malware (comment); Anti-unpacker tricks - part seven (technical feature); CARO mio, AMTSO mon amour (conference report); EICAR 2009 in a nutshell: ich bin ein EICARer (conference report); VB100 on Windows Server 2003 (comparative review)

June 2009