Srizbi spam botnet resurrected, in time for the holidays

by certifiedbug on November 26, 2008

in Security

Two articles of note:
Brian Krebs at The Washington Post: Spam Volumes Expected to Rise with Botnet Resurrection.

Atif Mushtaq and Alex Lanstein at FireEye: Srizbi control regained by original owner

The new Command and Control servers are located in Estonia, and the domains registered through a registrar in Russia.

I have already noticed an increase over the past 24 hours.

Update, Washington Post.
Srizbi Botnet Re-Emerges Despite Security Firm’s Efforts

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