Festi botnet

The Festi botnet, also known by its alias of Spamnost, is a botnet mostly involved in email spam and denial of service attacks.

History and operations

The Festi botnet was first discovered around Autumn 2009.[1] At this time it was estimated that the botnet itself consisted of roughly 25000 infected machines, while having a spam volume capacity of roughly 2.5 billion spam emails a day.[2] More recent estimates - dated August 2012 - display that the botnet is sending spam from 250000 unique IP addresses,[3] a quarter of the total amount of 1 million detected IP's sending spam mails.[4] Besides being capable of sending email spam, research into the Festi botnet demonstrated that it is also capable of performing denial of service attacks.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kaplan, Dan (November 6, 2009). "Festi botnet appears". SC Magazine. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  2. ↑ Jackson Higgins, Kelly (Nov 6, 2009). "New Spamming Botnet On The Rise - Dark Reading". darkreading. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  3. ↑ Kirk, Jeremy (Aug 16, 2012). "Spamhaus Declares Grum Botnet Dead, but Festi Surges". PC World. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Saarinen, Juha (Aug 20, 2012). "Festi botnet cranks up spam volumes". ITNews. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Krebs, Brian (June 2012). "Who Is the 'Festi' Botmaster?". Krebs on Security. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  6. ↑ Matrosov, Aleksandr (May 11, 2012). "King of Spam: Festi botnet analysis". ESET. Retrieved 1 January 2013.

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