Andrew Martin

MessageLabs wrote a nice report summarizing key events from August and it turns out our work was more widely felt than believed. Apparently part of Cutwail’s C&C infrastructure resided inside Real Host’s network. When they got cut off, SPAM levels dropped but only briefly since there were more C&Cs elsewhere to pick up the slack. [...]

Now that the report has hit mainstream media outlets, I am pleased to report that Real Host has been taken down. Score another one for the good guys! The story was first published by the Financial Times of London With follow up stories from: Network World The Inquirer CIO Magazine Information Security Magazine Sunbelt Software [...]