A huge spambot ensnaring 711 million email accounts has been uncovered. A Paris-based security researcher, who goes by the pseudonymous handle Benkow, discovered an open and accessible web server ...

A security researcher who goes by the name Benkow has discovered a spambot with 711 million email addresses at its disposal. Troy Hunt, who runs the website Have I Been Pwned, said it's "the largest ...

The spambot, known only as ‘Onliner’, was discovered when Paris-based security expert ‘Benkow’ found an open web server containing a staggering number of email addresses, passwords and email servers.

Security researchers have discovered a massive spambot called Onliner that contains a treasure trove of stolen users' email addresses, login and password information as well as port settings and SMTP ...

Unfortunately email scams are part and parcel of the internet. Some of them are harmless, and some of them are not. Recently, a spambot based in the Netherlands was found to have 711 million email ...

In August 2017, news appeared that hundreds of millions of e-mail addresses were harvested by a "spambot" with the goal of using them to spread information-stealing malware internationally. According ...

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