The Spam War That Almost Shut Down the Internet
A war between a loosely organized anti-spam group called Spamhaus and one of the Web hosts the group publicly identified as a spammer escalated last week, at times threatening some of the basic infrastructure of the Internet, according to a security firm's account.
A war between a loosely organized anti-spam group called Spamhaus and one of the Web hosts the group publicly identified as a spammer escalated last week, at times threatening some of the basic infrastructure of the Internet, according to a security firm’s account.
When Spamhaus identified Cyberbunker as a Web host that supports spam operations, the company and its supporters struck back with a sophisticated DDoS attack that escalated over a period of days, eventually threatening the basic functionality of the Internet, according to CloudFare, a security firm tapped by Spamhaus to help it recover from the attack.
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