Researchers at Trend Micro the IT security company have been putting great effort to find a certain criminal, the person behind Tequila botnet whom they've named Mr. L. State the researchers, the person profusely exploited harmless Web-surfers, mainly belonging to Mexico and Chile. Moreover, as per latest discoveries, Mr. L continues with his traditional tactics related to data theft and money usurping. Trendmicro.com reported this in news on March 21, 2011.
The security company, which conducted one analysis, discovered that particular phrases were repeatedly used within the script utilized for deploying the Tequila bot and as a result they got vital evidence towards tracking the threat. Incidentally, the Tequila creator, within a web-page, disclosed hosted services that consisted of e-mail id, name and telephone number, and this served as a clue while the researchers recorded the page. Diarioti.com published this on March 23, 2011.
Actually, it was during May 2010 when the attacks started wherein a few Mexican Internet surfers got an e-mail depicting fake details about a 4-year-old mother's nude images. The attackers used this lure for attracting people's notice and entrapping them into taking down and executing malware through a cunningly crafted website. Diarioti.com published this.
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