Saturday, January 13, 2007

It's not just you

I've now heard about three several other anti-spam sites that were taken down by DDoS attacks yesterday. It seems that this was a coordinated attempt to sweep anti-spam projects off the Internet.

This shouldn't really come as a surprise. Back when Pharmamaster and Blue Security were fighting it out - Pharmamaster won - I wrote a post on spamnation.info that said:

Pharmamaster and his friends have shown their strength and demonstrated how far they are prepared to go to protect their spam business. Any other anti-spam initiative that seems to be effective could just as easily be next.


It's no fun to be right all the time.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

In case anybody wants more on the Blue Security case, there was a great article in the November 2006 Wired magazine named "Attack of the Bots"

spamnation said...

Yes, that's a good article. You can read it online at:

Attack of the Bots.

Anonymous said...

If you can, post up all that information on your Blogger/Blogspot site and use it for as long as possible. The spammers can try to DDoS Google, but I doubt they'll be as successful as they are on another host. Hope to see you back online soon...

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on getting a temporary site set up. I'm waiting to hear from my host with an update on the status of my worldwidespam.info site.

Anonymous said...

Hello Spamnation,
Hope you'll be up and well again real soon - in the meantime are there any alternative ways to get the P&D stocks list you're maintaining? Thank you!