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Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet
An anonymous reader writes "New analysis of financial records and online chat logs retrieved from the operators of Spamdot.biz — until recently the most notorious spam affiliate program — provides tantalizing clues about the identity of the man behind Cutwail, currently the largest spam botnet. Brian Krebs tells the story of 'Google,' the screen name used by the now-27-year-old botmaster who was part of a team of programmers in Moscow. Over the years, Cutwail has shifted from a spam cannon for male enhancement pills to a major vector for distributing malicious software."
But those pills totally work! I tried them and my dick got 69% longer in just 3 short...
Hey, what's with all the laughing?
...how they grow up so fast!
Please arrest him now for terrorism (of small penis owners).
Now i am no more wondering how such a monster like SOPA, PIPA was created...
Should we do the same for pirates?
Unlikely, they serve the govt by compiling lists of gullible people; in other words they know who is an ideal voter / jurist / consumer.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
he meets the same fate as Vardan Kushnir
Also has the advantage that it is basically untraceable... i mean, what to you want, google it?
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Just because the US government has power to do a lot of locally illegal things around the world doesn't mean it should use that power every time we see something annoying. What's next? Nuking Justin Bieber?
I hope you meant "juror" instead of "jurist".
Maybe we should all send him mail...
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
Funny how, when it's (suspected) terrorists, drug lords, etc., most posters here argue for a fair, open trial, legal rendition and all that. Shut down Gitmo, stop the drone killings, stop the indefinite holdings, because we're becoming that which we fight.
But a spammer? Call in the CIA, call in DEVGRU, call in Jack Bauer, that man needs to be dead YESTERDAY, no matter the cost!
Also has the advantage that it is basically untraceable... i mean, what to you want, google it?
Yep, a clever choice of alias.
According to TFA, the Cutwail guy's real name is supposedly Dmitry Sergeyvich Nechvolod, phone number +7-916-4444474.
FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
because we're becoming that which we fight. But a spammer?
We're becoming spammers?
Sure. What are the Somalis going to do about it?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Spam cannon not large enough for your payload to reach people's inboxes? Try some herbal V14gr4.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Looks like operating a botnet isn't evil after all.
Hi Dmitry!
No, he's from Holland, where 'jurist' means 'lawyer' or 'attorney'.
bjd
<marked as spam>
Newsflash: different people on the same site have different opinions! Freaky, I know.
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Yeah. do that. And the next day we are back to stone age.
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Exaggeration ? Dont think so. the mafia that runs russia is as strong as the mafia that runs u.s.. And neither mafia would allow the other to kill their important assets in the dirty games they play.
You'd think that the author of world's largest botnet would be dealing in just viagra spam ? think again
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Is anyone arguing that the guy shouldn't get a fair, open trial, legal rendition, and all that? I know I'm not. Learn the difference between, "We should identify people committing crimes," and, "We should string people up without due process."
It means something similar in American English. I was hoping that such people were not that gullible.
"... provides tantalizing clues about the identity of the man behind Cutwail, ... Over the years, Cutwail has shifted from a spam cannon for male enhancement pills to a major vector for distributing malicious software."
You just had to go there, didn't you?
yeah he would .... hahahahaa ....
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Dead by our hands? No.
Just get them in a less fraudulent jurisdiction such as the US, then offer them the following choices:
They can tell all and get a long prison sentence in a well-protected facility within the US.
They can be turned back to the country that they came from, where they would most likely end up dead by fellow criminals.
If anything, you would be saving their lives and taking out a conduit for malware and spam.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Far simpler to punish those ISPs that fail to detect and notify customers of bot machines. It's not like the behaviour has very unique and easily detectable characteristics which can be detected at either end.
So at the receivers, simply make a report, validate to confirm via the number of reports and notify and fix the sender or disconnect. I know it will cost ISPs quite a bit but it costs everyone else even more to let it continue.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Well, I am affected daily by not only spam, but the need to have an antivirus program "control" my actions. So, Yes, Die you Spamming Commie
The people who say 'black-bag them' probably aren't the same people who talk against Gitmo.
The goal of terrorism isn't the actual damage, it's to instill fear and provoke self-destructive reactions. I don't know what the direct damages caused by the terrorists were, but indirectly they caused the 2 wars, which have cost (correct me if I'm wrong) in excess of 1 trillion dollars. I seriously doubt that spammers have cost the economy 1 trillion.
If communism was still in place, you'd get no spam from Russia. It's capitalism that begets spam, not communism.
Knowledge is power; knowledge shared is power lost.
I give you that point, but then they would move to less oppressive area/islands/counties