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CALIFORNIA - The good news for you who often get junk mail (spam) in your email inbox. The reason, security researchers announced, third tersebesar botnet responsible for approximately 18 percent of spam in the world has been disabled.
The botnet, known as the "Grum" to target a collaborative operation spearheaded by the Fire Eye, Atif Musthaq. Musthaq first load posting about Grum on July 9, through his writing he is reported in detail what it takes to kill the network for four years to send hundreds of thousands of spam to the user's computer. As reported by Mashable, Monday (23/07/2012).
Mushtaq's first recorded Bonet command and control (CNC) is located in the state, Panama, Netherlands, and Russia. With the Dutch government report server was shut down on July 16 last Grum.
Not long ago the main server in Panama at the turn Grum. According to Mushtaq, "Turning off the server Panama is very meaningful." Because the server is the central control of Panama's largest CNC Grum botnet.
Although the CNC had tried to open the server in some other States, Finally on July 18, 2012, Mustaq announced, Grum and all of its CNC Server has been completely dead. For your information, Botnets consist of two main elements, namely, command and control server that acts as a parent.
Botnets are most often used by hackers is to send some spam to more load to the server gave the target of attack, known as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) which is a favorite tactic Anonymous.
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