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Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On
CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer reports that the big spam-spewing Srizbi botnet, shut down two weeks ago when McColo was shuttered, has been resurrected and is again under the control of criminals, security researchers said today. As of late Tuesday, infected PCs were able to successfully reconnect with new command-and-control servers, which are now based in Estonia, said Fengmin Gong, chief security content officer at FireEye. The comeback confirms what researchers noted last week, that Srizbi had a fallback strategy. So, in the end, that strategy paid off for the criminals who control the botnet."
Argh! Zombies!!!!! They're bound to be after brains! Well they'll find none here! Take that you evil zombies.
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I know it's off topic, but my machine was running great for a couple weeks... now its all slow again.
Well of course. With no worker unions, government bureaucracy or international laws to get in the way, they have it easier than your average law-abiding citizens and companies.
I have worked in more than a few offices that have no backup plans for when things go wrong; power outs, network outages, supply chain disruptions, and the like would stop work cold. I find it amusing that a band of criminals are running a more flexible and 'professional' operation than many ligament businesses.
And here I've been wasting my time trying to set up an organ chop shop in Hong Kong!
They're not random dammit! they always occur where the real part is a half, well the non-trivial crashes anyway.
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
... and a Coke
Tell that to the RIAA.
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If by 5:95 you mean 1:19. Didn't your math teacher teach you to reduce your fractions/ratios?
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AAHHAAAHH!!! My ham string!!! Make the burning stop!!!
We are the Borg...
Your math teacher was a hamster and your history teacher smelled of elderberries.
You don't have much experience battling hydras, do you?
Nice troll.
I think it might be more accurate to say if only they had a strategy.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
AAHHAAAHH!!! My ham string!!! Make the burning stop!!!
Did you mean: Spam string?
It's nice to see that somebody's IT department has the funding and expertise to implement a backup plan.
It gives me hope.
"The cup is in turn designed for holding hot or cold liquids, and has an open rim and closed base." --US Patent #5425497
I don't know what he'd draw, but I know it'd be covered in chrome. :)
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I guess it would a giant, dilapidated 50's-style robot vomiting a stream of cans of spams to crowds of innocent people.
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do zombies cause a panic in linux?
hehe
Which part of "random crashing" is alleviated by Linux? The "random" or the "crashing"?
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
I think you mean 52429 : 1048576
...the one remaining 4800 baud link between Estonia and the rest of the world was taken down earlier today when IT technicians took control of the phone line to order a pizza.
Have gnu, will travel.