The Necurs Botnet: A Pandora’s Box of Malicious Spam

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This is the tale of a cybercrime botnet operation that, within about five years of its existence, has been named one of the largest botnets in the world.

It’s called the Necurs botnet. It militarizes up to 6 million zombie endpoints, delivers some of the worst banking Trojans and ransomware threats in batches of millions of emails at a time, and it keeps reinventing itself.

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