Blogs about Spam tools and Bot nets: PandaLabs and F-Secure

I came across the blogs from PandaSoftware and F-Secure which both report about recent developments in the Spam and Bot net world. The blogs give a good insight into the world behind the daily Spam flood.

The blogs can be found at f-secure.com/weblog/ and blogs.pandasoftware.com/blogs/pandalabs/. Both cover in general the same topic (and I’m quite sure that other security companies have similar blogs, btw.) which is malware of any kind. If you want to get a feeling about how spammers and bot net controllers really work these are good sources for information. As an example: while I knew that writing trojaners and viruses isn’t that difficult in these days due to build kits I wasn’t aware that controlling bot nets is maybe even easier: F-Secure’s article about the LDPinch trojan and PandaLabs’ a href=”\">article about the Zunker Bot both show GUI’s which are plain and simple - and easy to use. Looks like even bot net...