Sprawling spam botnet struck down
As this article (and others) show, although a person may originally set up the CnC, all spam is automatically generated after that. FireEye is going after two more!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/st...tnet-spam.html
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A California-based computer security company says it and several other experts have taken out a piece of malware responsible for more than 17 per cent of the world's spam.
FireEye wrote in a
company blog Wednesday that all of the command and control servers deploying the Grum botnet had been disabled...
Mushtaq said the security community's success in taking down the botnet shows that with concerted effort, even ISPs in countries considered safe havens for those looking to set up command and control servers (CnCs) for malware can be pressured to help stop those flooding computer networks with malicious spam.
"There are no longer any safe havens," [FireEye Investigator] Mushtaq wrote. "Most of the spam botnets that used to keep their CnCs in the U.S.A. and Europe have moved to countries like Panama, Russia and Ukraine thinking that no one can touch them in these comfort zones. We have proven them wrong this time. Keep on dreaming of a junk-free inbox."
