Spam Flood Unabated After Bust

AcidAUS writes "Last week's bust of the largest spam operation in the world has had no measurable impact on global spam volumes. The spam gang, known by authorities and security experts as HerbalKing, was responsible for one-third of all spam, the non-profit antispam research group Spamhaus said." The article speculates that the operators of HerbalKing simply passed on to associates the keys to the automated, 35,000-strong botnet, and the spam flow didn't miss a beat.

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thats one possibility

[damn_registrars]

If they sent the keys to that botnet via email.

That is an interesting idea, but what would be the incentive for spammers to cooperate?

I suspect it is more likely that the systems in their botnet - of which many are compromised windows PCs - were re-compromised by someone else's worm and is now doing someone else's botnet work.

Re:thats one possibility

[cheater512]

Either that or they had a queue of spam that needed to be sent and its still flushing it out.