Flubber Posted July 22, 2012 Report Posted July 22, 2012 (edited) I am glad to announce that, after three days of effort, the Grum botnet has finally been knocked down. All the known command and control (CnC) servers are dead, leaving their zombies orphaned. How it all happened is a long story, but I would like to summarize it for you. The state of the Grum botnet has changed since we last talked (see previous posts here and here for a look back). On July 16, I reported that while CnC servers in Panama and Russia were alive, shutting down the Dutch server had at least made a dent in this botnet. On the morning of July 17, we at FireEye got the news that the server in Panama was no longer active. The ISP owning this server at last buckled under the pressure applied by the community. It was great news. The shutdown of the Panamanian server meant a lot. I explained in my earlier post that Grum was comprised of two different segments. One was being controlled from Panama and one from Russia.[...]According to data coming from Spamhaus, on average, they used to see around 120,000 Grum IP addresses sending spam each day, but after the takedown, this number has reduced to 21,505. I hope that once the spam templates expire, the rest of the spam with fade away as well.[...]Grum's takedown resulted from the efforts of many individuals. This collaboration is sending a strong message to all the spammers: "Stop sending us spam. We don't need your cheap Viagra or fake Rolex. Do something else, work in a Subway or McDonalds, or sell hotdogs, but don't send us spam."Full articleMore related Edited July 22, 2012 by Flubber thread ("50% of spam ...") deja pe RST Quote
Flubber Posted July 22, 2012 Author Report Posted July 22, 2012 Merge topics cu asta ??Oups! Mersi ca ai adus in atentie.Eu spun ca merge, nu este mentionat in acel thread link-ul catre blog,desi cineva ar putea da un Google Search cu informatiile din el pentru a il gasi sau sa il ia de pe site-ul sursei. Quote
