10.12.07
30% less viagra spam as of today?
According to an article I just read a Russian spammer, thought to be responsible for roughly 30% of the viagra spam worldwide was found murdered in his house this week.
Now the optimist in me wants to see this as a revenge action where he spammed the wrong person, but I bet he just failed to pay his protection money or something silly like that.
The end result should be 30% fewer viagra mails .. if only for a few days until someone else takes over the botnet this idiot was using.
EDIT: Appearently, this is a hoax. The original domain this post was on was registered just before the story appeared, has no other content and is hosted at a hosting provider (ESTDomains) which is known for hosting malicious websites in the past. Securityfocus.com notes that this might be an attempt to create a highly referenced URL (through blogs, digg, slashdot, google, etc.) that later could be used to host malicious code.
Tags:hoax, malware, spam