A Great analysis of botnets, their means of communications and their characteristics:
http://www.secureworks.com/research/threats/topbotnets/?threat=topbotnets
From the article:
One template-based botnet (Warezov/Stration/Opnis) that was a major player six months ago has completely dropped off of the radar. Warezov was known for sending Chinese pump-and-dump stock spam. Perhaps it is no coincidence that in the same time frame that we stopped seeing Warezov spam/malware, the notorious spam kingpin Alan Ralsky was arrested and charged (among other things) with sending pump-and-dump stock spam for Chinese companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ralsky
Interesting story.
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