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A 100k Botnet Turns Home Routers to Email Spammers

by Hui Wang blog.netlab.360.com published 2018-11-077 min read

This article was co-authored by Hui Wang and RootKiter. Since September 2018, 360Netlab Scanmon has detected multiple scan spikes on TCP port 5431, each time the system logged more than 100k scan sources, a pretty large number compared with most other botnets we have covered before. The interaction between the

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