Ned Slider schrieb: > fchan wrote: >> "Their back..." the quote form Carol Anne Freeling from the movie >> Poltergeist II. >> I don't know about you but I seen these spikes in spam today which is >> inline what spamcop.net sees: >> http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamstats >> http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamweek >> http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spammonth >> >> I knew that shutting them down on one colo site will only prevent them >> from sending spam for a short time. Now they appear to have found a >> new location somewhere... in hell. >> >>> I noticed the size of my black list dropped by more that 1/3 this >>> last week. >> >> > > I've not seen any real uptick in spam volume today per se. What I have > seen is a rise in virus attachments today - spambot viruses, probably > the latest edition set for the new C&C infrastructure where ever they've > moved that to. I've not analysed any samples so I'm not sure which > spambot it is or where the new C&C infrastructure is located. To me it > looks like they're starting to rebuild their botnets. > > What's clear is that they will learn from this. They had a weakness - a > single point of failure and they will now build in redundancy so taking > out one host in future will unlikely result in the precipitous drop in > productivity again that we've seen this time around. Look at why Storm > was so successful for so long. > >
in fact bots were used to make a ddos attack, now they are back on their normal spam jobs, this weekend had the lowest spam amount since years look here sorry no english http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Spam-faellt-auf-Jahrestief--/meldung/119321 but the image will show whats happend -- Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer Germany/Munich/Bavaria
