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Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned boxes

  • From: Chris Boyd
  • Date: Thu Oct 09 11:54:03 2003



On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 10:04 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,60747,00.html

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srs (postmaster|suresh)@outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9
manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations



I found one of these today, as a matter of fact. The spam was advertising an anti-spam package, of course.

The domain name is vano-soft.biz, and looking up the address, I get

Name: vano-soft.biz
Addresses: 12.252.185.129, 131.220.108.232, 165.166.182.168, 193.165.6.97
12.229.122.9

A few minutes later, or from a different nameserver, I get

Name: vano-soft.biz
Addresses: 131.220.108.232, 165.166.182.168, 193.165.6.97, 12.229.122.9
12.252.185.129

This is a real Hydra. If everyone on the list looked up vano-soft.biz and removed the trojaned boxes, would we be able to kill it?

--Chris