[ga] The Botnet that won't die...

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Well its back!  Seems that LEA's didn't finnish the job.

See:
Gregg Keizer reports that the big spam-spewing Srizbi
botnet, shut down two weeks ago when McColo was shuttered,
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9121678
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,
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9120727
that Srizbi had a fallback strategy. So, in the end, that strategy
paid off for the criminals who control the botnet.

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