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Monster spam botnet briefly resurrected from the dead
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| Most of Srizbi's new command and control servers were located in Estonia and
| all of its domains were registered in Russia. For about 13 hours, some
| 100,000 or so infected machines had the ability to connect to those servers,
| though it's not clear exactly how many of them did so, since many of them
| were likely not powered on, Lanstein said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/26/srizbi_returns_from_dead/
Spam on rise after brief reprieve
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| Some 450,000 infected computers have been spotted trying to connect to the
| largest of the networks McColo hosted.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7749835.stm
Spammers Regaining Control Over Srizbi Botnet
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| The zombie computers used to send spam are coming back to life.
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| Security vendors say spammers are reconnecting with hacked PCs used for
| sending spam as evidenced by a rising number of spam messages circulating on
| the Internet the last few days. Spam levels suddenly dropped two weeks ago
| after the shutdown of McColo, a rogue ISP (Internet Service Provider) based
| in San Jose, California, whose connectivity was used to control networks of
| hundreds of thousands of computers to send spam, known as botnets.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/154554/.html?tk=rss_news
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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