Botnet tracker timeline
Date | Project | Botnet 1 > 35,000 IPs |
Botnet 2 > 300 IPs |
Botnet 3 ~250 IPs |
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Late June | Creative news headlines
(no analysis yet) |
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July 6 at latest | Porntube landing pages
video.exe |
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July 14 | Download video landing page
view.exe |
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July 15 | watch.exe | |||
July 21 | Watch Free Movie codecinst.exe |
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July 26 | "Beijing Olympics cancelled" I get interested in Javascript |
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July 28 | JS hypnosis worsens | |||
July 30 | Datamining Despammed.com archives | |||
Aug 1 | Wholesale investigation of landing pages | get_flash_update.exe | ||
Aug 2 | Misc. spam | |||
Aug 4 | CNN Top 10 Video | |||
Aug 4 | ||||
Aug 6 | Faux-CNN landing page | Internet Explorer 7 starts | ||
Aug 7 | CNN Alerts:My Custom Alert Obfuscated CNN page adobe_flash.exe |
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Aug 11 | asvoo.org antivirus popup | Internet Explorer 7 stops | ||
Aug 13 | msnbc.com - BREAKING NEWS: Faux-MSNBC landing page |
BBC News spam Last news for [name] spam |
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Aug 17 | BREAKING news Watch Free Movie again install.exe CNN Top 10 Video again |
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Aug 18 | Weekly top news
viewer.exe installer.exe |