Cybercrime is going upscale. Criminals are not just putting together bigger botnets–more than a million computers in some cases–they are also adopting the principles of modern marketing to get their products onto your users’ computers. This has implications that will be coming soon to thousands of mailboxes near you.

At the center of all this activity are not spammers or phishers, who increasingly outsource the delivery of their e-mail campaigns, but professional botnet herders, most of whom rent out their networks of infected machines through an elaborate underground marketplace. PC World - Business Center: Botnets Plus Spam Equals Trouble

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