New Botnets Replace Vanquished Pests


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New Botnets Replace Vanquished Pests

Computerworld (US) staff, Computerworld

Although the shutdown of a California Web hosting company eradicated several prominent botnets last year, others have stepped up to fill the gaps, a security researcher says.

Gone from the landscape, said Joe Stewart, director of research at Atlanta-based SecureWorks Inc., are "Srizbi" and "Storm," the botnets Stewart ranked as No. 1 and No. 5, respectively, in an April 2008 botnet census.

Srizbi, and to a lesser degree "Rustock," were crippled two months ago when McColo Corp., a company that has long been hosting botnet command-and-control servers, was cut off from the Internet by its upstream providers after researchers accused it of harboring cybercrime activity. Stewart was one of the researchers who had beaten the McColo drum.

When McColo's connection to the Internet was severed, spam volumes immediately plunged as spammers were unable to use Srizbi or Rustock bots to send their junk mail."

Story: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/arti...shed_pests.html

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