One hacker, taking control of thousands of zombie computers, could send 74 BILLION spam emails per DAY. Most of it was targeting vulnerable people with the promise of inexpensive (and dangerous) prescriptions.

But when law enforcement, tech platforms, and drug companies worked together, their takedown of these unprecedented botnets changed spam forever.

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