Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
December 5, 2007

As it turns out, the spambot unleashed back in October and blamed on Ron Paul supporters originated from a “criminal botnet of compromised computers run out of Ukraine,” according to SecureWorks, a company that specializes in information security.

“While the total count of Ron Paul spam messages that actually landed in peoples’ inboxes can’t be known, it certainly was received by millions of recipients,” writes security researcher Joe Stewart, in a SecureWorks report. “All this was done using around 3,000 bots.”