As the security researchers speculated back in November, the happy times when fewer junk mails hit our inboxes were not bound to last. Dropping to under 40% of what they were before the takedown of infamous hoster McColo, the spam levels are now at over 60 percent. On November 11, following a collaborative effort fro... |
10 December 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Following the recent takedown of the notorious McColo ISP, the control servers of several major botnets have been knocked offline, rendering the armies of zombie PCs out of the reach of their owners. Researchers from the FireEye Malware Intelligence Lab have fought and succeeded to keep the largest of these botnets, ... |
1 December 2008
05:29 GMT |
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McColo has succeeded to strike a deal with an unsuspecting uplink provider, and got back online for a short period of time. Even if it lasted only a few hours, the uptime allowed botnet herders to push updates and relocate some of their control servers.The sudden takedown of the McColo hosting provider last week took... |
17 November 2008
06:16 GMT |
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Security researchers, anti-spam groups and the whole security community in general were taken by surprise yesterday when reports of a sudden drop in junk mail activity started flowing in. This was the result of ISPs depeering McColo Corp., a U.S. based company offering web hosting services to many international cyber... |
12 November 2008
05:48 GMT |
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