Cybercriminals no longer control one of the world’s largest spam botnets, Grum, because all of the servers the botnet relied on for receiving commands were shut down, according to researchers from ...

California-based security firm FireEye and U.K.-based spam-tracking service SpamHaus traced the spam back to servers in Russia and “worked with local ISPs to shut down the servers, which ran networks ...

One of the world’s most active spam botnets — Grum — was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security ...

Security firm FireEye helps bring down the world's third-largest spam botnet, and its spam drops from a deluge down to a trickle One down, two more to go? On Wednesday a Russian Internet service ...

A relatively new botnet has taken up the slack left by the shutdown in July of another major spamming botnet called Grum, according to the junk mail fighting organization Spamhaus. The botnet, named ...

Security researchers have collaborated to take down Grum, the world’s third-largest botnet of hijacked computers. The Grum botnet is believed to have been responsible for around 18% of global spam, or ...

One of the world’s most active spam botnets — Grum — was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security ...

A joint effort by antimalware company FireEye, law enforcement authorities and other antispam activists has taken down Grum, believed to be the world’s third-largest botnet, accounting for nearly 20 ...

A major spam botnet that inundated email inboxes around the world with emails promoting fake prescription drugs is gone. So says the security firm that helped kill it. "The Grum botnet has finally ...

Dutch coppers have pulled the plug on the Grum botnet just a week after the servers were identified by malware intelligence firm FireEye. The speedy removal of the servers shines light on how quickly ...

Eight months ago, the Grum botnet was estimated to be the largest in the world, pumping out a third of the global volume of spam email. But things changed over the following six months as Atif Mushtaq ...

One of the world's largest spam botnets has been taken down by a group of internet security experts. The Grum botnet, which had control servers based predominantly in Panama, Russia and Ukraine, is ...