[120463] in North American Network Operators' Group
Article on spammers and their infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Regnauld)
Tue Dec 22 05:27:52 2009
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:27:12 +0100
From: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/attackers-buying-own-data-centers-botnets-spam-122109
It this something new ? The article seems to mix various issues together.
And this would seem highly inefficient to me compared to traditional
botnets (renting your own rack for a botnet doesn't really make sense :)
Comments ?