Festi botnet is growing and is the fifth botnet

We all know the botnets Cutwail, Bagle, Grum and Rustock, responsible for about 75% to 80% of all the spam globally, but now Festi is becoming the fifth botnet in the row of largest botnets. Festi is gradually growing and is estimated to be responsible for between 3% to 6%, since the beginning of September 2009, [...]


We all know the botnets Cutwail, Bagle, Grum and Rustock, responsible for about 75% to 80% of all the spam globally, but now Festi is becoming the fifth botnet in the row of largest botnets.

Festi is gradually growing and is estimated to be responsible for between 3% to 6%, since the beginning of September 2009, of the spam that is distributed worldwide. In terms of volumes this will range between 1.5 tot 3 billions spam messages per day.

The spam messages focus on male enhancement type mails, with .cn domains in use that lead to a Canadian Pharmacy web site, and replica watches, with mostly .com domains in use.


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