Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On 205
CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer reports that the big spam-spewing Srizbi botnet, shut down two weeks ago when McColo was shuttered, has been resurrected and is again under the control of criminals, security researchers said today. As of late Tuesday, infected PCs were able to successfully reconnect with new command-and-control servers, which are now based in Estonia, said Fengmin Gong, chief security content officer at FireEye. The comeback confirms what researchers noted last week, that Srizbi had a fallback strategy. So, in the end, that strategy paid off for the criminals who control the botnet."
Zombies!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Argh! Zombies!!!!! They're bound to be after brains! Well they'll find none here! Take that you evil zombies.
Thats strange... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What intriques me... (Score:5, Funny)
Well of course. With no worker unions, government bureaucracy or international laws to get in the way, they have it easier than your average law-abiding citizens and companies.
Re:We don't need no stinking backups... (Score:2, Funny)
I have worked in more than a few offices that have no backup plans for when things go wrong; power outs, network outages, supply chain disruptions, and the like would stop work cold. I find it amusing that a band of criminals are running a more flexible and 'professional' operation than many ligament businesses.
And here I've been wasting my time trying to set up an organ chop shop in Hong Kong!
Re:Random crashes (Score:2, Funny)
They're not random dammit! they always occur where the real part is a half, well the non-trivial crashes anyway.
A McColo with Fries (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Further Proof (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Going back in time ... (Score:5, Funny)
Never fails - I never have mod points when I see posts worthy of them.
Re:They stopped them once. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:We don't need no stinking backups... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:They stopped them once. (Score:1, Funny)
Your math teacher was a hamster and your history teacher smelled of elderberries.
Re:Aim for the head ... (Score:5, Funny)
You don't have much experience battling hydras, do you?
Re:fallback strategy (Score:2, Funny)
Nice troll.
I think it might be more accurate to say if only they had a strategy.
Re:We don't need no stinking backups... (Score:2, Funny)
AAHHAAAHH!!! My ham string!!! Make the burning stop!!!
Did you mean: Spam string?
Re:Further Proof (Score:5, Funny)
It's nice to see that somebody's IT department has the funding and expertise to implement a backup plan.
It gives me hope.
Re:Zombies!!!!! (Score:1, Funny)
I'm from Estonia!
All your zombies are belong to us!
Re:Going back in time ... (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know what he'd draw, but I know it'd be covered in chrome. :)
Re:Going back in time ... (Score:5, Funny)
I guess it would a giant, dilapidated 50's-style robot vomiting a stream of cans of spams to crowds of innocent people.
Re:Hello fudge packers! (Score:1, Funny)
do zombies cause a panic in linux?
hehe
Random or crashing? (Score:3, Funny)
Which part of "random crashing" is alleviated by Linux? The "random" or the "crashing"?
Re:They stopped them once. (Score:2, Funny)
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