Experts are that the spam volumes may spike significantly over the next few days now that one of the world's largest networks of compromised computers used for blasting out junk email has been brought back to life, reports Brian Krebs of the Washington Post.

"The Srizbi botnet, a collection of more than half a million hacked PCs that were responsible for relaying approximately 40 percent of all spam sent worldwide, was knocked offline two weeks ago due to pressure from the computer security community."

Source: Paul Ferguson / SpamCop.net

Related Links:
Spam Volumes Expected to Rise with Botnet Resurrection (Washington Post, 11/26/2008)
Massive Botnet Returns from the Dead, Starts Spamming (Computerworld, 11/26/2008)
Spam is Inching Up... (Fergie's Tech Blog, 11/26/2008)

Update:
Estonian ISP Cuts Off control Servers for Srizbi Botnet (NetworkWorld, 11/27/2008)

Read full story: Washington Post

Related topics: Cyberattack, Cybercrime, Security, Spam