Gumblar botnet awakens after five months to distribute malware

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Gumblar botnet awakens after five months to distribute malware
Dan Raywood October 16, 2009

The Gumblar botnet has begun to be seen again five months after it rose to prominence.

Mary Landesman, senior security researcher at ScanSafe, claimed that after it built a botnet of compromised websites in May, it is now using those compromised websites as hosts for its malware.

http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Gumblar-botnet-awakens-after-five-months-to-distribute-malware/article/154889

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