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Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On

Posted by timothy on from the late-entry-for-hallowe'en dept.

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."

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  1. fallback strategy by pak9rabid · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    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."

    Now if only Bush had a fallback strategy, we wouldn't be dealing with the mess that is current-day Iraq..

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