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Donbot, also known by its aliases Buzus and Bachsoy, is a botnet mostly involved in sending pharmaceutical and stock-based e-mail spam.

The Donbot botnet is thought to consist of roughly 125,000 individual computers, which combined send 800 million spam messages a day. This amount equals about 1.3% of the estimated total global spam volume of 230 billion messages a day, though the botnet has known spikes where it accounted for up to 4% of the total spam volume.

See also

• Malware
• Internet crime
• Internet security
• Internet spam

References

1. "Donbot". M86 Security. April 20, 2009. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
2. ^ http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/botnets2009/
3. • Aharon Etengoff (August 28, 2009). "Nefarious Donbot spews URL-shortened spam". TG Daily. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
   • "'Donbot' launches pump-and-dump run > Botnet > Vulnerabilities & Exploits > News > SC Magazine Australia/NZ". Securecomputing.net.au. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
4. "The top 10 spam botnets: New and improved | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com". Blogs.techrepublic.com.com. February 25, 2010. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
5. "Rustock - The King of All Other Botnets". SPAMfighter. January 1, 1990. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
6. "The top 10 'most wanted' spam-spewing botnets". Networkworld.com. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
7. Shaun Nichols in San Francisco. "Botnet begins social networking spam run - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com". V3.co.uk. Retrieved July 30, 2010.

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