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July 19, 2012 07:54 pm GMT

Sound Of Silence: Researchers Nearly Shut Down Grum Spam Network

4634002184_b8e1cc16fc_zNotice anything weird about your email inbox? If you said there wasn't as much spam lately that's because researchers at FireEye and the venerable SpamHaus have essentially shut down the Grum botnet by marking and banning IP addresses. The bonnet was responsible for 18% of the world's spam and had lassoed 560,000 to 840,000 computers using a rootkit.

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