[109216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] McColo: Major Source of Online Scams and Spams Knocked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike)
Tue Nov 11 22:53:01 2008
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From: mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Since 11/5, my spam load has dropped from about 400,000 attempts per day
to less than 40,000 ! And most of this I had noted was comming from what
looked like compromised web hosts - eg: same host/domain name
representing 10 or 20 addresses in any given range). I am shocked at the
sudden and dramatic downtick but also equally delighted! Way to go!
Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> Via Security Fix.
>
> [snip]
>
> A U.S. based Web hosting firm that security experts say was
> responsible for
> facilitating more than 75 percent of the junk e-mail blasted out each day
> globally has been knocked offline following reports from Security Fix on
> evidence gathered about criminal activity emanating from the network.
