Spammers Using Hacked Machines as Decoys

Posted by michael on Thursday October 9, 2003 @07:29AM from the there's-gotta-be-a-law dept.

avi33 writes "This Wired story shows a disturbing alliance between hackers [sic] and spammers. Interestingly, they blame part of the alliance on market forces, leading some skilled engineers to the dark side for profit's sake. A Polish firm claims to have control of 450,000 Trojaned systems that it uses to mask the IP addresses of its hosted sites. In other words, you could host your Viagra-peddling site with a company that has a stringent no-spam policy, but a DNS lookup will point to a home user's compromised machine. Not quite bulletproof, but certainly ups the ante in the spam war."

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I call it! by doppleganger871 · 2003-10-09 07:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Not It!"

That is all.

Thank you.

Done.

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Chlorophyll?? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-09 08:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

More like bore-ophyll!
No I will not make out with you! Did ya hear that? this girl wants to make out with me in the middle of class! You got Chlorophyll Man up there talking about God knows what and all she can talk about is making out with me. I'm here to learn, everybody, not to make out with you! Go on with the chlorophyll!