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Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure


From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:08:18 +0000

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Phil Regnauld wrote:

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/attackers-buying-own-data-centers-botnets-spam-122109

It this something new ?  The article seems to mix various issues together.
And this would seem highly inefficient to me compared to traditional
botnets (renting your own rack for a botnet doesn't really make sense :)

Comments ?

Sounds like a snowshoe setup to me.

Tony.
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