DDoS on anti-spam groups
Published: 2007-06-07,
Last Updated: 2007-06-07 21:34:57 UTC
by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 1)
It looks like a pretty big DDoS attack is being carried out against
several well known anti-spam groups, including Spamhaus, SURBL and
URIBL. The Rules Emporium site that hosts additional (and very useful)
rules for SpamAssassin is also not available at this moment - I don't
know if they are under a DDoS attack as well.
The attacks seem to be similar to those carried out against BlueSecurity
last year, with the Storm malware. Storm is a botnet that can do
basically anything and, starting from DDoS attacks to sending spam.
It looks like some anti-spam groups managed to get the attack(s) under
control, let's hope the things will stay that way.
On the other side - this looks like the anti-spam tools are doing their
job because spammers seem to be desperate when they launch DDoS attacks
(otherwise they would just keep sending spam, instead of using their
resources this way).
