Articles and Videos in media about Botmaster Labs team
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en.WikiPedia.Org: General description of the XRumer software complex
The article briefly describes the capabilities of the software. There are also links to external information sources.
Quote: "The program is able to bypass security techniques commonly used by many forums and blogs to deter automated spam, such as account registration, client detection, many forms of CAPTCHAs, and e-mail activation before posting."
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pl.WikiPedia.Org: General description of the XRumer software complex
The article briefly describes the capabilities of the software. There are also links to external information sources.
Quote: "Obsługuje automatyczne rozpoznawanie CAPTCHA, aktywacje e-mailowe przed wysłaniem wiadomości na forum, rejestrowanie nowych e-maili, użycie proxy (tak by administrator forum nie zorientował się po adresie IP że spamuje go ta sama osoba)."
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Symantec Corporation: XRumer: The Spammer’s Toolkit
An article about how a fishing-employee "slip" of the methods of work.
Quote: "Xrumer makes it very easy to select any hot topic that’s available at that time."
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PDF (1.2 MB): Sophos Labs: THE PARTNERKA – WHAT IS IT, AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
Comprehensive article telling about the activities of Black-SEO, and applied in this field instruments.
Quote: "A special area of black SEO tools are the various spamware tools for blogs, forums and guestbooks, the most popular of which are A-Poster and Xrumer. Their functionality is similar to email spam-sending tools of the recent past, like SendSafe or DarkMailer. A-Poster specializes in spamming guestbooks, while Xrumer works on forums. The latter provides support for automated forum registrations which often require a valid email address and a confirmation. The entire process is fully automated and includes CAPTCHA recognition to generate hundreds of free email accounts."
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Washinton Post: Scary Blogspam Automation Tools
This article is about XRumer 3 and the possibilities of that version. Also is mentioned another software — Send-Safe.
Quote: "their product can evade a variety of technologies designed to defeat blogspam, such as requiring users to register an account before posting comments, or passing online "Turing tests" through the use of captchas."