Users face being deluged by spam and malware from 500,000 cracked email accounts
Security researchers have discovered that a botnet known as 'Waledec' has successfully cracked nearly 500,000 email accounts, and is likely to start using them to vastly increase its spam activity....
To continue reading this article...
Join Computing
- Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
- Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
- Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
- Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
- Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
- Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders
