James2 - 5:13 pm on Dec 6, 2010 (gmt 0)

Think this goes in here:

A Russian man the FBI believes has been responsible for one-third of the spam you get in your inbox is scheduled to be arraigned in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, court Monday. According to court documents and FBI affidavits, researchers began tracking down the "Mega-D" spam automated botnet as a prime source of selling counterfeit goods, and the mastermind of it all is Oleg Nikolaenko. "'Mega-D" was likely the largest botnet in the world, accounting for 32% of all spam," the court documents said. "Security researchers estimated that the botnet was capable of sending ten billion spam email messages a day.”

[news.blogs.cnn.com...]

[edited by: engine at 6:17 pm (utc) on Dec 6, 2010]
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