Tag: bot
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Srizbi kernel-mode spambot reappears as Pitou
Malware possibly still in the ‘brewing’ stage. In November 2007, we published an article by Kimmo Kasslin ( F-Secure ) and Elia Florio ( Symantec ), in which they analysed the ‘Srizbi’ trojan, notable for being the first malware found in the wild that operated fully in kernel mode. It appears that Srizbi has made…
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Gmail CAPTCHA cracked
Twenty per cent success rate sufficient to create thousands of spam accounts. Gmail has become the latest free webmail service to have its CAPTCHAs cracked by spammers. Following the recent news of the Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Mail CAPTCHAs having been cracked, the news of Gmail ‘s CAPTCHA being surpassed will come as little…