Botnet begins social networking spam run

Reported by V3.co.uk on Friday, 20 November 2009 (on November 20, 2009)

Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Friday 20 November 2009 at 00:03:00 'DonBot' makes an offer Twitter can't refuse A major malware botnet has sprung to life and is making a massive spam run through social networking sites. Researchers with Symantec's MessageLabs branch said that the DonBot network has...

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