On The Trail Of Super-Zonda

Dynamoo writes "BBC Radio 4 has been on the trail of the notorious Super-Zonda spammers and crackers, according to this article. Super-Zonda's trick is to find insecure hosts and pressgang them into webservers for mail order brides, viagra and other spam favorites. In this case a server is traced back to a hacked machine at a major international airline. The BBC investigate some of the people allegedly behind the spam in an investigation starting on the Spamhaus houseboat in London and ending in the Netherlands via Moscow. The BBC point the finger at Martijn Bevelander of MegaProvider as being not the innocent party he seems. The BBC provide some evidence to back this up, and are not known for rash accusations."

Comments

Solution to all spam

[Junky191]

How about people just stop buying the junk the spammers are selling? I guarantee you it will all disappear overnight if everyone does. Thats the beauty of the free market- its only around if it remains desirable.

Heh

[autopr0n]

They probably didn't really think it was that diffrent from finding insecure relays or proxies. Honestly, a lot of what Spammers do could be considered hacking (port scanning for open relays/proxies, a lot of which may be already infected with viruses or hax0red).

I hope they give 'em the chair!

Not known for rash accusations?!?!?!

[PHAEDRU5]

Their coverage of Tony Blair and the war in Iraq is nothing short of New York Timesish.