A new spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August. The botnet is already responsible for approximately 5 percent of all global spam. The security industry lacks a uniform way to title botnets, the result is sometimes a long list of names for the same botnet that are used by different antivirus vendors. The naming dilemma can be a difficult one to tackle according to Vincent Weafer, vice president of Symantec’s security response division.”]
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