I built this website. From scratch. Including the servers.
I know.. I'm talking to myself again. ;) Here's some more.
In the metafilter post Bye Bye Blue Frog I found some linked email threats sent from the spammer to Blue Frog customers, example 1, example 2.
Also, Blue Frogs method was clarified, seems whenever spam went out the Blue Frog users would send 1 email to the company/website advertised in the spam - this brought some of teh advertised sites down. Now, if you can't server ten thousand customers, don't mail ten thousand people. Seems fair enough doesn't it? Also, this would alert some companies who might not even know it, that they bought "advertising services" off shady spammers.
Oh god. Check this quote attributed to Pharmamaster (the Russian spammer) in The Register:
"We didn't think PharmaMaster would go to extreme of launching a denial of service attack against so many organisations. With 20-20 hindsight we wouldn't have made these configuration changes, but at the time we didn't think he'd go so far," Blue Security CEO Eran Reshef told El Reg at the time. "My mistake was not anticipating he'd go berserk."Blue reckons PharmaMaster hired a botnet to launch the assault. During an ICQ conversation, PharmaMaster told Blue Security that if he can't send spam, there will be no internet.
Nice. Real nice.
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