Spammers Using Hacked Machines as Decoys

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."

Comments

Re:Firewall

[stratjakt]

That doesn't mean shit. If you get a trojan somehow, you're machine will connect to the hacker (usually joining an irc channel or something similar).

Cutting off inbound ports wouldn't do jack.