Srizbi spambot rises from ashes, then burns and crashes

Six months ago, the Srizbi botnet was big news. Indeed, I reported that it was responsible for as much as 46 percent of the spam being seen by one monitoring outfit. Then, just last week here at IT Pro I was ranting about how spammers were in a world of hurt courtesy of the takedown of a single web hosting service thought to be responsible for enabling as much as 75 percent of the spam on the planet. Indeed, a week ago things looked good for the spammed majority with 70 percent less spam flowing through cyberspace.