Inside a Porn-Pimping Spam Botnet
Summary: KrebsOnSecurity examined a spam botnet promoting adult dating sites, whose roughly 100 publicly accessible reporting panels showed 1.2 million active bots in October 2016 and between 50,000 and 100,000 by the time of writing in June 2017. The spam traced back through email headers to "snowshoe" spamming across many domains and subdomains, and the sites advertised were affiliated with CyberErotica and Deniro Marketing LLC.
What's compelling: The botnet's own control panels reported live bot counts with no authentication or credentials required, yet Krebs still could not determine how the botnet was built, what malware it used, or who ran it - a 1.2 million-machine crime machine whose operators left the front door open and remain unidentified.
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