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After 10 years, Phorpiex botnet is still active

Posted on 20 October 2019

From 2-spyware.com

Phorpiex botnet used in sextortion email spam campaigns collects $115K

After being active for around 10 years, Phorpiex (aka Trik) botnet has recently been delivering millions of sextortion messages to random users via email spam campaigns. Check Point researchers found that this botnet is now running over 450,000 affected hosts.

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