On Wednesday 19 November 2008 06:27:08 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:06:36 -0500 > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > After the shutdown of that server I get less spam. > > > Others have noted that too: > > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111 > >801120.html?hpid=topnews > > > > > Hugo > > > > yep. A more graphical version of the result can be seen at > > http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?autocom=custom&page=stats (look > > at the monthly averages). With projects like castlecops' SIRT/PIRT/MIRT, > > knujon, complainterator etc., spammers are having a very hard time this > > year! Good for us! > > Not to worry; the spamming botnet is coming back online: > > McColo, a network provider that was yanked offline following reports it > enabled more than half the world's spam, briefly returned from the dead > over the weekend so it could hand-off command and control channels to a > new source, security researchers said. > > The rogue network provider regained connectivity for about 12 hours on > Saturday by making use of a backup arrangement it had with Swedish > internet service provider TeliaSonera. During that time, McColo was > observed pushing as much as 15MB of data per second to servers located > in Russia, according to Paul Ferguson, a security researcher for > anti-virus software maker Trend Micro. > > The brief resurrection allowed miscreants who rely on McColo to update > a portion of the massive botnets they use to push spam and malware. > Researchers from FireEye saw PCs infected by the Rustock botnet being > updated so they'd report to a new server located at > abilena.podolsk-mo.ru for instructions. That means the sharp drop in > spam levels reported immediately after McColo's demise isn't likely to > last.> > > >From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/18/short_mccolo_resurrection/ > > (hat tip: http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/11/18/219204.shtml). > > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > > Celejar > -- > mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email > ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator If only they could use all that energy and time for doing good instead, imagine how much better Debian/Linux would be if that energy was spent on bug fixes instead of sending spam... (2c) -- Thank you, Clifford W. Hansen PHP Developer / Linux Administrator (Mobile/SMS) +27 82 883 8677 (Fax) +27 86 503 0634 (E-Mail/Jabber/GMail) clifford@nighthawk.co.za (GPG) 0x936D6C19 (Web) http://nighthawk.co.za/ "We have seen strange things today!" () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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