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Thursday, July 05, 2001
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/zdnetuk/news/story/0,,s2090630,00.html Hackers earn income from spam attacks Max Smetannikov, Interactive Week (mailroomuk@zdnet.com) Spam, bam, thank-you ma'am: Security experts fear that a new hacker tool is in the works - a Trojan horse that causes the infected machine to generate spam without the owner's knowledge. Several small Internet service providers have been shocked to see some of their most unlikely users turn into spammers. But it turns out the users are unwitting tools of a new virus that experts say is the first case they've seen of hackers finding a way to commercially exploit their skills....
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