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Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet
Trailrunner7 writes with this from ThreatPost: "Researchers have made a huge dent in the Pushdo botnet, virtually crippling the network, by working with hosting providers to take down about two thirds of the command-and-control servers involved in the botnet. Pushdo for years has been one of the major producers of spam and other malicious activity, and researchers have been monitoring the botnet and looking for ways to do some damage to it since at least 2007. Now, researchers at Last Line of Defense, a security intelligence firm, have made some serious progress in crushing the botnet's spam operations. After doing an analysis of Pushdo's command-and-control infrastructure, the researchers identified about 30 servers that were serving as C&C machines for the botnet. Working with the hosting providers who maintained the servers in question, the LLOD researchers were able to get 20 of the C&C servers taken offline, the company said."
Wait, so I wont be getting any more exciting opportunities to add inches to my penis? What about all that steady income I was getting helping out Nigerian bankers!?!? How am I going to feed my family and satisfy my wife?
I take your multiple ^Hs and raise you a ^W
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
What you're looking for is the B-Team, a team of anti-botnet soldiers of fortune on the run from the RIAA after being branded as criminals for a "download they didn't commit."
I would love to see stories like this tagged "oldmanyellsatcloud".
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