Secret Muslim botnet

MessageLabs announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for October 2006. In this report, MessageLabs highlights the sudden increase in spam levels as spammers gear up to the holiday season, attributed to a huge rise in recent botnet activities and the latest outbreak of the Warezov virus, responsible for dropping an aggressive spam Trojan.


SENDING MILLIONS OF EMAILS???

A spam-sending Trojan dubbed "SpamThru" is responsible for a vast amount of the recent botnet activity which has significantly increased spam levels to almost three out of every four emails.

EVERYBODY GETS AN EMAIL!!!

The developers of SpamThru exploited numerous tactics to eliminate detection and enhance outreach such as releasing new strains of the Trojan at regular intervals in order to confuse traditional anti-virus signatures detection.

CAN'T BE SPOTTED!!!

Furthermore, SpamThru employed the "spam cannon" technique and by utilizing a template for each spam it sent out and combining it with a list of email addresses, each zombie was able to pump out millions of spam emails and avoid detection.

EACH ZOMBI PC SENDS MILLIONS OF EMAILS




The other contributing factor to the increase this month was the Trojan dropper called Warezov, one of the most aggressive Trojans seen this year. The initial strain of Warezov was seen on 14 August, however the most aggressive and virulent batch of variants appeared at midnight on 26 October.

AGGRESSIVE, PERSISTENT, HIDDEN

MessageLabs seized over 900,000 copies of the virus in the first 24 hours, when tens of thousands of copies of each variant were released in numerous batches. With each batch being different from the previous one, even a few bytes changed in the code allowed the Trojan to pass undetected though traditional anti-virus protection.

EACH BATCH DIFFERENT

Being a dropper it is uncertain as to what the Trojan is being used for, however it seems clear that there is a connection with the huge rise in spam levels around the world. Whether Warezov is connected to the SpamThru Trojan remains to be seen and analysis continues."

SO EVERY EMAIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST COULD BE SENT MESSAGES :
EXPOSING Al-Qaeda's ISLAMIC LIES, PROPAGANDA. EXPOSE THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN THEM AND ISLAM, EXPOSING THEIR POLITICAL POWER AGENDA AS NON-RELIGIOUS, A CALL TO COUNTER JIHAD, TO RECLAIM THEIR RELIGION.
Its a possibility.
What could one send them? Look about you...read View CC license
It could be programed to self destruct after its job, leaving no trace.

Gerald