http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/08/20/231916/spammers-prepare-new-anti-georgia-botnet-onslaught.htm By Edward Parshotam Computerweekly.com 20 Aug 2008 Cybercriminals are attempting to create a botnet network to launch cyber attacks against Georgian Government computers, according to Gary Warner, director of computer research and forensics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Spam e-mails sent by the criminals seek to trick the user into clicking on a mock-up BBC story about the Georgian president. The email message says 'Mikheil Saaskahvili gay scandal! New of this week' before linking recipients to a malicious server that attempts to infect the user's computer. Warner's team tracked the messages to 44 computers. Six are located in Russia and one has been linked to the Russian Ministry of Education. [...] __________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia! With a new triple-track conference featuring 4 keynote speakers and over 35 international experts, this is the largest network security event in Asia and the Middle East! http://conference.hackinthebox.org/hitbsecconf2008kl/Received on Thu Aug 21 2008 - 22:07:38 PDT
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