Re: [Rucus] article: Six botnets churning out 85 percent of all spam
Otmar Lendl <ol@bofh.priv.at> Thu, 06 March 2008 09:07 UTC
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On 2008/03/05 22:03, Dan Wing <dwing@cisco.com> wrote: > To get a feeling of botnets and their contribution to today's email spam: > > "... > At its peak, the Storm network accounted for 21 percent of all spam > and contained an estimated 85,000 bots. Mega-D, on the other hand, grew to > encompass 32 percent of the spam network in early February, but contained only > an estimated 35,000 bots. > ..." If we think that the threat to open SIP proxies is comparable to the spam problem in the current email ecosystem, then this bodes ill for any approach which is based on trust between originating and terminating SIP provider. (e.g. interface (b) from draft-niccolini-sipping-spitstop-01) /ol -- -=- Otmar Lendl -- ol@bofh.priv.at -=- _______________________________________________ Rucus mailing list Rucus@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rucus