Spammers tangled in turf war

CRIMINAL GANGS are involved in a turf war over the rights to spam punters into oblivion.

AV researchers at Kaspersky say they have identified three criminal gangs which are participating in an increasingly desperate battle of the botnets.

According to Daniweb.com, the turf war is turning nasty and average computer users are getting caught in the crossfire.

Apparently the gangs are working out ways of removing rival software from compromised machines and replacing it with their own.

Kaspersky Lab senior virus analyst Alexander Gostev said that the war had been declared in cyberspace between the groups producing Warezov and Zhelatin viruses.

This has resulted in a huge increase in attacks on users, with an emphasis on developing new techniques to infect end users and evade detection by AV filters. µ

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