The Spam Cryer

Mega-D Botnet back after McColo shutdown

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December 8th, 2008

Well it was a nice but brief vacation from three of the big Botnets as McColo was shut down last month but by all reports the Mega-D botnet looks to be back and at near full strength. TraceLABS is reporting that as much as 48% of recent spam can be traced back to Mega-D. Global levels of spam dropped last month by as much as 75% when McColo, a bullet proof hosting company for spammers, was taken offline after its involvement in hosting the Command and Control servers for these botnets was reported to the upstream ISP’s.

The Bot Herders have not been asleep these past weeks but have re-vamped and improved their tools. You can bet that they will not be caught out next time their command and control servers are taken offline. Expect spam volumes to return to ‘normal’ as the holiday season approaches and people start surfing around for deals on that perfect gift.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/08/mega_d_returns/

- Shaun

Entry Filed under: Botnets, CudaMail, Spam Firewall