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."

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Please grow up and join the real world

[janrinok]

This is an attack on US assets by foreign nationals.

You are receiving spam not nuclear weapons, you idiot. It's not terrorism. What are you being terrorised to do? For goodness sake, get a sense of perspective! It is an annoyance, but it is hardly posing a threat to your national security. If it is causing you that much of a problem then unplug your computer from the socket in the wall.

I'm not saying that there isn't a cost involved - there is. But what sort of action are you suggesting should be taken? A military invasion? Undercover assassinations of anyone you think might be involved in spamming? Or simply killing all those whose machines are infected? And if you think that any of those is acceptable then you surely won't have any objection if/when other nations start behaving that way in your country, will you? I know where most of my spam originates.