Dark Reading published an article recently titled “SMBs Often Hit Hardest By Botnets”. David Setzer, our CEO, was featured in this article after an interview in which he gave his expert insight on the issue.
Spammers use their botnets not only for sending unwanted email to SMBs, but also for gathering new email addresses and bot recruits. “They are after sensitive data, as well,” says David Setzer, CEO of Mailprotector, an email security service provider. They want to recruit a new spam relay/bot, but they also throw in a keylogger to sniff for usernames and passwords, and try to grab as much lucrative sensitive data as possible, he says.
“It’s kind of a Swiss Army knife of malware…[they figure] they might as well get all the goodies they can out of [the SMB],” Setzer adds.
While Setzer says he can’t pinpoint any specific botnets that focus on hitting SMBs, more SMBs tend to get hit because they don’t have the horsepower to handle the threats. A DSL line or DS3 connection can be no match for a botnet spamming and waging a directory attack, he says.
