Re: Strange Windows behavior / Spamming customers

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2004-03-04 Christopher Kunz wrote:
> I don't know how many german-speaking members this list has, but I'd
> like to point all people who are working on the spamming/trojan issues
> to a rather good article in the german IT magazine "c't"
> (http://www.heise.de/ct/inhalt.shtml).
>
> Basically, this article links the numerous trojans that circulate in
> peer2peer networks, irc networks like QuakeNet and IRCNet and via mail
> to the exact problem you're seeing. Seems like the creators of the
> trojan variants (built with a trojan building kit) use the trojans to
>
> 1) create massive botnets with tens of thousands of compromised hosts
> and use them for their own purposes (mainly dDoS)
> 2) create a steady revenue stream by renting out these botnets to
> spammers, who in turn relay millions of spam mails through these
> networks.
>
> According to the article, there have been several arrests in the UK
> and USA connected to the investigations done by "c't" and a german
> student.

I suppose you are referring to "Unter fremder Kontrolle" in c't 3/04.
There is an excerpt of this article available online [1]. Unfortunately
no translation to english.

[1] http://www.heise.de/ct/04/03/118/

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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