After the plug wall pulled on the Web Hosting firm McColo in the US. This was after 4 months of investigation by Washington Post newspaper. The major clients of this firm were gangs running spam botnets.
Due to this move the spam traffic has gone down by 70%, but this would be a temporary slump for the gangs until they find a new network to move to.
The data that was collected on the Web Hosting Firm was passed on to the ISP’s of McColo, which led to the internet service providers Global Crossing and Hurricane Electric to pull the plug on this company.
The gangs which were hosted with the Web Hosting firm were running botnhets- whic basically are computers which are like zombies which are taken over by the spammers who send malicious software and spam.
As the US industry is pulling its socks up to fight and secure its network more and more gangs are looking for networks outside US where policies are less stringent.
However this will only make the spammers more cautious while making their moves henceforth.
However lets try and enjoy the spam free mailboxes while we can.
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This post was written by Brad on November 13, 2008
