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Spambot's Got Smarts! Sarvdap Malware Scans Blacklists to Optimize Spam Delivery
By David Bisson on Sun, 10/23/2016
On September 20, 2016, the Mirai botnet temporarily brought down Brian Krebs' information security blog KrebsonSecurity.com. It did so by launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) campaign, the attack traffic of which peaked at approximately 620 Gbps in size – one of the largest DDoS offensives the Internet has ever seen. A week or two later,...