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110: Spam Botnets

Darknet Diaries

CHAPTER

Cutwhale - The Biggest Threat

The takedown that had the biggest impact on cutwale was actually a little accidental. It stopped 80 % of cutwell's email spam overnight. With cutwell momentarily weak end, that only gave more opportunity for rustock to climb up the spam botanet world. By august, two thousand ten rustock was the most dominant pharma spaming botanat but then some news broke that wasn't taken very well by these spammer ffiliates. The data that was being leaked contained all kinds of details about the hacker and spammer activities,. like how much they were earning, and some pretty big clues as to what their real identities were.

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