DarkReading: It's All About Infecting, Selling Big Batches of Bots
‘The botmaster told the undercover researcher that he didn’t focus on exploiting vulnerabilities when going after prospective bots. Instead, he mostly used social engineering via instant messages. He can spam 10,000 users with a lure like a “check this out”-type link and get a one percent or better response rate, he said.’
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