The Spam Cryer

Warezov Rises From The Ashes

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October 16th, 2008

Well that didn’t take long …

Less than a day after the announcement that there was a downward trend in spam because of the arrest and freezing of the accounts of Shane Atkinson, his brother Lance Atkinson and Roland Smits we get word that a botnet than was dormant for 9 month is now waking up.

See I told you that the vacuum created by the arrest of the Atkinson team would be filled shortly!

Here are some more articles on the subject for you:

Warezov Botnet Rises From The Grave

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/16/warezovs_second_coming/

Storm Botnet Blows Itself Out

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/14/storm_worm_botnet_rip/page2.html

Feds Hamstring World’s Largest Spam Gang

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/14/prolific_spammers_targeted/

F-Secure Bulletin on the Warezov Botnet

• http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00000966.html

- The Spam Cryer

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