[120468] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Tue Dec 22 08:09:03 2009
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:08:18 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Phil Regnauld <regnauld@nsrc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091222102709.GD81417@macbook.catpipe.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> 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 ?
Sounds like a snowshoe setup to me.
Tony.
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