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SecureWorks researcher Joe Stewart reverse-engineers a SpamThru Trojan and finds evidence of a well-heeled spam operation attempting to manipulate penny stocks. These images show the scammers at work.

Deconstructing a Pump-and-Dump Spam Trojan - SpamThru Bot Control Connections
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This chart shows the number of connections each control port received each day from the bots. The 2236 and 2238 variants gained a lot more infected users than any of the other variants, sometimes bringing up to 3 million connections to the control serv



 
 
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  1. Deconstructing a Pump-and-Dump Spam Trojan
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  3. Infected Files
  4. SpamThru Bots by OS Version
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  6. Top 20 Other Malware on SpamThru Bots
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  8. SpamThru Bot Control Connections
 

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