![]() ![]() 10,000 computers sending 10,000 spams each will typically finish faster than one server sending 100,000,000 spams.īut just how much spam can a botnet send in real life? You also carry the risk of being blocklisted by your ISP, because you’re the only publicly visible email step in the spam sending chain. The crooks pay nothing for their bandwidth. Even if half of the zombified computers are cleaned of malware, the other half keep going. ![]() The crooks enjoy many benefits from using other people’s computers to send spam, namely: (Audio player above not working? Download, or listen on Soundcloud.) If you want to send spam but you don’t have a botnet of your own, you can rent time on someone else’s, using the CaaS (crimeware-as-a-service) model. → The collective noun for a group of bots is a botnet, short for “robot network.” The cybercrooks that runs a botnet are known as botherders or botmasters. That’s because spammers don’t just use a bot here and a bot there to send unwanted emails, they use a whole collection of bots at the same time (typically tens of thousands or more), for truly distributed spamming power.
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