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

somebody needs to stop...

[FudRucker]

flooding the PC market with ms-windows PCs that never get updated or virus checked to clueless consumers...

as long as msft & oem pc manufacturers are more interested is making a quick buck and the problems that go along with it are ignored this sort of thing is never going to stop...

-if you mod this comment down it just buries your head deeper in the sand-

The Final Virus

[Anonymous Coward]

This is yet more evidence of the need for a real life Final Virus. It's just a shame that in order to write malware of this complexity you pretty much have to be employed full-time by the Russian mafia to do it.

Yes, I'm militantly anti-Windows. This kind of attack is the reason why. That botnet is practically fucking sentient. Pick any ten supercomputers, imagine them in a Beowulf cluster, and you still won't be anywhere near its power. All because Gates cut a deal with IBM 20 years ago. Fuck that.

Russians

[wytcld]

The Russians

Why not just boot them from the Internet? Between botnets and bulletin board spam - nearly all of which comes from Russians who get paid pennies to get past the captchas - and the clear preference of the majority for a return to Comrade Stalin, can someone tell us why we should be accepting Russians in our cyberspace?

Re:Russians

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember that the Jews (Khazar type, the one that is controlling every aspect of the U.S.A.) and Russians are originated from the same place. They have been very organized trying to take over the world, by attacking us through nigger zombies and muslims.

HEIL HITLER! SIEG HEIL!

Re:Grey Hat solution

[TFGeditor]

If you live in North America, the solution is simple: Firewall the rest of the world.

For years, I have used this practice and by so doing eliminated spam and malware by 95-plus percent.

So what if somebody in Lower Slobovia cannot communicate with me? I/my business have no interests in Lower Slobovia.

Zero loss, huge gain.

It works for me.