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Spammer DDoS-By-Virus On spamhaus.org
McDutchie writes "Steve Linford of Spamhaus announced in a press release that the latest Wintel virus, W32/Mimail-E, was created by spammers for the specific purpose of DDoS'ing Spamhaus, Spamcop, and SPEWS. It's becoming more and more clear that the spambags are the ones behind the recent mess with the Windows viruses. They must really be getting desperate."
I wonder if this will be quickly followed by a press release on being slashdotted..? The world's friendliest DDoS attack..
Chris, taffie down under..
...that the death penalty would be inappropriate for these people? I sure can't see why it would be.
W32/Mimail-E, was created by spammers for the specific purpose of DDoS'ing Spamhaus, Spamcop, and SPEWS.
And in phase two of the attacks spammers craftily create stories containing links to the target spam lists and post them on slashdot. LFTL
This is great news!
Now we're once step closer to linking spam to al Qaeda. These viruses are terrorist actions, and are more demonstrably more dangerous even than Iraq's nukes!
Once we somehow link spammers to September 11, we can invade them (or maybe just throw them in jail where the other inmates can do the "invading").
Well, the guy behind this article is obviously a spammer.. its a really smart idea to slashdot a site which is getting DDOS'ed... Well, I'm wondering what would have been more damage.. the worm or the slashdotting
First get a corporate shield, an S-corp can be had for as little as $100 in most states. This will protect your personal assets from a lawsuit.
.40 bottle of vitamin C with a little sticker that says "Placebo you bought from a spammer, dumbass. Cure wait ails ya."
Get a bulk mailer and email harvester and sell "Placebon the Herbal Viagra." Get a credit card processing account (or maybe just paypal) from a bank.
Email a million people.
Get ~5,000 orders.
Charge $19.99
Send them a
You profit. They get burned. Everyone wins. For the moral people, think of it as your personal war against scurvy.
this virus spreads itself by email a ZIP attachment which contains EXE that must be run, of course its Windows only.
I would love a way to identify IP address of all idiots who contract this virus, just to be sure my AOL/RoadRunner/Verizon netblock blacklists are complete.
>only mails from "thrustworthy" origin
There's no need to even comment on this typo!
LOL!
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They will never know the simple pleasure of a monkey knife fight
FWIW, I linked to that thread in the original submission but it was edited out. (Which is good for you - enjoy the karma. ;) )
Slashdot will.
There are few things I can think of more Homer-Simpson-ish than post a slashdot link to certains sites to tell the world they are being DoSed.
-><- no
Maybe it's a 1-2 punch type approach. ...(DNS/blacklist/etc has to be re-routed until virus passes)
Step A - release virus to DDoS on blacklist maintainers
Step B - while blacklists are down, send out massive spam campaign or more virus-type spam
Step C . . . Profit?
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
Don't quote unless you understand it. You don't, therefore you shouldn't.
Besides, compared to the bleeding hearts in our justice system, "overseas" is often where you WANT to see them persecuted. Lets all just take a moment to pray they are in Singapore...
Never confuse volume with power.
1. Print out all the new laws and proposed regulations; bind them into a big, thick book.
2. Get some competent network admins (who are obviously nowhere near any government cyber-crime unit) and can easily track down the source of the spam and worms.
3. Go to the perpetrators home or residence.
4. Beat the perpetrator over the head with the book of laws.
The more laws we pass, the heavier the book becomes and the more brain damage it will do. Considering the trend our leaders have in thinking more laws will stop this when the existing laws aren't being enforced, the only reasonable solution is to use the actual laws themselves as some form of blunt instrument.