SpamAnti.net in February 2010

News of the SPAM world

Botnet managers open their own ISP

Not limiting themselves to attack badly-protected computers (your security suite is well updated and operating without a glitch, of course), the designers and managers of some of the existing botnets need to coordinate their victims (the famous zombie PCs) with the help of easily accessible web sites. But this would make them realtively vulnerable to the actions of the public authorities and anti-spam technicians who fight them.

They are running fast, and faster now. We learned that they started to open their own Internet Service Providers (ISP). It's all about renting first-level services (normally at prices that reserve them to corporations) so that they can keep sneding junk to us in an efficient electronic way.

The bigger advantage they find is the it will become more and more difficult to cut them from their botnets. Police actions will become a more arduous task.

Source: Boinb Boing.

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