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Cybercriminals use "fast flux" tactics to evade the law and conceal the location of their malware, it has been claimed.
Such criminals use these methods to conceal the websites hosting their phishing and spamming tools, the Guardian has reported.
"In the past, a phishing site would be linked to a single domain. A phisher would register a fake bank site - say, thefakenatwestbank.com; the site must reside on a machine on the internet," the publication noted.
It added that in February this year, the Storm botnet used fast flux tactics to launch a phishing campaign geared towards targeting Barclays and Halifax.
This botnet is one of the key reasons British banks are targeted so often by phishers, the Guardian claimed.
Botnet comes from the words robot and network and refers to a group of infected machines which a hacker can use for nefarious purposes.
Such computers are also sometimes referred to as zombies.
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