The Gang Behind the World's Largest Spam Botnet 58
tsu doh nimh writes "A Wikileaks-style war of attrition between two competing rogue Internet pharmacy gangs has exposed some of the biggest spammers on the planet. Brian Krebs uncovers fascinating information about a hacker named 'GeRa' who is supposedly behind the Grum botnet, which is currently sending about one out of every three spam emails worldwide. The story also points to several possible real-identities behind the Internet's largest spam machine."
Re:Priorities (Score:3, Interesting)
time spent, infrastructure upgrades, spam filtering, etc
I of course hate spam, but that type of stuff does keep a lot of Slashdotters employed.
Good job on being spectacularly biased and imagining up all those useful pieces of information to back up your viewpoint.
Re:Priorities (Score:2, Interesting)
Oh yeah, sure. It'd be about as easy as blocking payment to some other really damaging websites such as wikileaks. /sarcasm
Re:80k sales and $6m in revenue (Score:2, Interesting)