Necurs botnet has come alive
Necurs, currently believed to be the world‘s largest botnet, has come online again. Necurs distributed malware in the form of malicious attachments till December 2016 when its operation went suddenly offline. The Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group have warned the botnet was revived in February 2017 and started distributing pump and dump emails persuading people towards purchasing stocks of a particular company.
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