This is new to you? Polymorphic anonymizers have been a way of life for a while now.
Jeff On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:24 PM, BATTLES, TIMOTHY A (TIM), ATTLABS > <tmbatt...@att.com> wrote: >> There are some assumptions here. First are you considering volumetric >> DDOS attacks? Second, if you plan on harvesting wild bots and using them >> to serve your purpose then I don't see how this can be ethical unless >> they are just clients from your own network making it less distributed. > > I cant believe this .. http://www.iprental.com > > Looks like anonymizer combined with what looks almost like a "rent a > botnet", legit nodes (you sign up to download a client that makes you > part of this botnet, etc) > > http://www.iprental.com/technical/ > > Speaking of a "commercial botnet"", there was something similar > earlier - but that was a "download this bulk mailer" type operation, > guys called Atriks, who got tracked so extensively by spamhaus that > they seem to have kind of disappeared now. > > --srs > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Look for us at HostingCon 2009 in Washington, DC on August 10th - 12th at Booth #401.
