The Return of Spam with a Vengenace

[classicsoftware]

Brian Krebs, the outstanding security reporter at The Wasjington Post reposrts today that:

Spam volumes could rise considerably over the next few days now that one of the world's largest networks of compromised computers used for blasting out junk e-mail was brought back to life tonight.

The "Srizbi" botnet, a collection of more than half a million hacked PCs that were responsible for relaying approximately 40 percent of all spam sent worldwide, was knocked offline two weeks ago due to pressure from the computer security community.

You can read the full detail here (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/?hpid=news-col-blogs)

Read these for more detail:

Host of Internet Spam Groups Is Cut Off (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111200658.html)

A Closer Look at McColo (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/the_badness_that_was_mccolo.html)

How Does So Much Spam Come From One Place? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903075.html)

Two Weeks Out, Spam Volumes Still Way Down (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/64_69_65_73_70_61_6d_64_69_65.html)

[PrntRhd]

The scary part is McColo was allegedly controlling multiple old style botnets but decentralized botnet control is much harder to detect and combat, sort of like antibiotic resistance in bacteria, you can take out the easier ones but the ones that survive are harder to deal with.
The re-registration of some of the domains in Estonia will be a continuing threat.

[PrntRhd]

Estonia moved remarkably quickly to take them down again:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/26/srizbi_returns_from_dead/

[TwistedPixel]

lol that is freaking nuts!!! it was responsible for over 40% of all internet spam!?!?