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110: Spam Botnets
Darknet Diaries
Cutwhale and Pushde Botanics
Google used the trojan called pushde to infiltrate windows computers and get the cutwell spam engine running on them. Pushde would infect machines through fishing emales, like the email might say, someone just sent you an e card. Otherm s were drived by down loads. But that was just a dropper, a tiny program whose job was to install push dew. And when those tasks are done, pushde gets on with its real purpose, down loading more malwar. Once cutwhale down loads and runs for the first time, the computer is now a zambe machine. It's a slave and part of the cut whale botanet. These services often
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