A Threat Intelligence Analyst on Vertek’s Cybersecurity team recently discovered a massive spam recipient list from a bad threat actor’s botnet after analyzing a malware sample that was distributed via email to one of our clients. To read more regarding Vertek’s discovery, please see: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trik-spam-botnet-leaks-43-million-email-addresses/ Following the discovery of this incident, the analyst worked with Troy Hunt at HIBP (https://haveibeenpwned.com) and about 10% (4M) of the addresses in the SPAM leak were new/not recorded......
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