Anti-Scammers Become Storm Botnet Victims

capnkr writes "It looks like the efforts of the anti-scammers at sites like 419eater, Scamwarners, Artists Against 419, and possibly others have become the target of the Storm botnet. Spamnation has a post about it, and as of this writing none of the above listed sites are responding. Spamnation reports that CastleCops and other anti-spam forums are being DDoSed as well. Sounds like a massive, concerted effort against the folks who are fighting the good fight. Although I hate it for the owners and admins of the above sites, I think it shows without a doubt that their efforts to 'get back' at the scammers are working."

Comments

Re:More than just DDoS

[cpq]

user@my-box:~$ host aa419.org aa419.org has address 127.0.0.1 Actually this is the SMART thing to do. If they're attacking the hostname of the website, any smart admin would change the DNS record to lower the TTL to update, and update their address to 127.0.0.1. This way the botnet boxes end up attacking themselves. I've done it before. Then once the attack is over you update your A name record to the actual IP.