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New botnet appears

by Iain Thomson

21 May 2008

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A new botnet which specialises in sending out phishing spam has prompted security experts to call for enterprises to review their security protection.

The Asprox botnet uses a SQL-injection attack tool to hack websites and add yet more hijacked PCs to its army.

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