The worlds largest spam botnet has acquired capabilities that could allow it to be used in massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Security researchers at BitSight’s Anubis Labs recently observed the Necurs botnet loading a component in infected systems that allow the systems to perform DDoS attacks. The addition of the new component appears to have started at least six months ago, researchers say. In addition to being used for spam distribution, Necurs has also been used to deliver the notorious Locky ransomware and the Dridex banking Trojan.”]