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Spammers Attack Back: BlueSecurity Closes Doors

May 17, 2006
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A massive DDOS attack against Israeli anti-spam company Blue Security by Russian Spammer PharmaMaster has succeeded. Blue Security announced today that they have ceased operations. Blue Security did have a rather controversial model – Spam the Spammers – but it worked.

The idea was that they had over 500,000 users, and when they detected Spam they would bombard the Spammers with requests to unsubscribe from all of them at once. The intention was to overload their server and make it untenable to send Spam.

Obviously, this tactic must have worked well, because the Spammers fought back and used vast Botnets to attack not only Blue Security, but they caused serious disruptions for service providers hosting the company’s servers, they interrupted service at Tucows, and they knocked out thousands of blogs being hosted by Six Apart after PharmaMaster launched a DoS attack against a server hosting a Blue Security blog.

About Brad Waller

Some say Brad created the first affiliate program. We’ll never know for sure, but we do know that Brad has been running businesses online since 1994 and affiliate programs since 1996. When he is not running the affiliate program for EPage Classifieds, helping publishers monetize their sites with AdJungle, or working on iPhone applications, Brad is also busy starting up the Performance Marketing Alliance, a trade association created to represent and build the entire performance based industry.

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Filed under: Adware, Spyware, Greynets, & Internet Fraud
  • http://www.revenews.com/jimmydaniels/ Jimmy Daniels

    I read on castlecops that they could possibly do something to people who still had the client installed, if they could somehow take over the old blue security ip address they could run scripts or whatever they wanted on their machine. So, if you still have it installed, you should probably uninstall it.