#benkow

711 million email accounts susceptible to largest-ever spambot; can bypass spam filters; Windows only, Macintosh unaffected

“A huge spambot ensnaring 711 million email accounts has been uncovered,” Zack Whittaker reports for ZDNet. “A Paris-based security researcher, who goes by the pseudonymous handle Benkow, discovered an open and accessible web server hosted in the Netherlands, which stores dozens of text files containing a huge batch of email addresses, passwords, and email servers used to send spam. Those…