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110: Spam Botnets
Darknet Diaries
Spam It - A Brief History of Spaming
Nikolay's death was big news across the spamer community. One spammer built a net called rustock, and he had some of his commanding control service hosted with mcolo corp. Cosma programm rustock to just sit quietly do absolutely nothing for five days after infecting a computer. This helped it hide from anti virus scans. The botnet used dans for the bots to connect but cosma coated them in specific ip addresses as back up systems.
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