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12/31/2007 7:28


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hack-gear.com enters the war on spammers. there are plenty of sites out there that post spammer relay and source ip addresses, but we will post information about spammers, their botnets, and their servers (command and control). there is a 'hacktivism' movement that visits these sites and perform malicious acts against them. hack-gear.com does not promote this activity. (UPDATE: hackers go after phisher gangs)

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12/30/2007: Last post of the year. Storm mutated again. This time it was a short-lived attacktargeting the holidays. Look for yet another spam-slam for new years day. Test fires have already been observed. One could speculate that a storm infected box (particularly a server in a data center) could be used to back-run to a c2 server a bot master uses.

08-Sep-2007: Latest Spam News: I have already heard the buzz about the impending spam slam that will be ramping up for the holiday season. With storm mutated, and .pdf spam down (lived its life "well.", look for new spam sources to pop up en mass later this month. Have your gateways ready; your volume is going to skyrocket.

12-Aug-2007: Spam News: There has been a significant spike in spam hitting our honeypot in the last 24 hours.

27-Jun-2007: Spam News: Spammers are now using their bots to push out stock spam in a PDF file. This began about 25 June 2007. Evidently there is new code that permits this. It is being shared between certain bot herders, More as it develops.