MENLO PARK, Calif. - "PharmaMaster", one of the world's leading spammers, is the culprit who is holding the entire Internet hostage to stop the Blue Community and keep his spam business running says Blue Security. Blue Security is a company based in Israel than fights spam by targeting spammers and the businesses that advertise their products using spam.

Eran Reshef, CEO of Blue Security, said, "Six out of the top 10 spammers worldwide have stopped sending spam to the Blue community recently; as such, PharmaMaster is determined to prevent this change in the spam economy. After a barrage of threatening letters last week that only made the Blue community stronger, PharmaMaster resorted to sophisticated attacks on Blue Security."

Reshef continued, "The attacks started with a strike on the Internet backbone itself, causing the Blue Web site to become inaccessible to visitors outside Israel, while remaining available for Israeli visitors. The attack used a technique called "Blackhole Filtering". PharmaMaster boasted that it was he who was able to make a top-tier ISP's staff member to block Blue Security's former IP address (194.90.8.20) at the backbone routers."

In PharmaMaster's words (taken from ICQ sessions where PharmaMaster contacted Blue Security): 'Support (top-tier ISP's name withheld) says: Yes wont be a problem, I'll make sure to block all traffic to this domain very soon just get me reports, mate.'

Reshef continued, "Thirty minutes after Blue closed its Israeli site and posted a note on its blog site, PharmaMaster ruthlessly ordered a massive, sophisticated DDoS attack against any site associated with Blue. This attack caused five top-tier hosting providers in the U.S. and Canada, a major DNS provider and a popular blog site to go down for several hours."

PharmaMaster summarized the situation (excerpt from ICQ session): "you know Ii feel sorry for you and all the world 9000 servers (which) are down :-)"

According to Reshef, PharmaMaster also told Blue Security that if he can't send spam, there will be no Internet. He also said that he will do whatever it takes to continue his fight but acknowledged the power of the Blue Community.

This is the first time I have seen anyone come up with a practical way to fight spam. I enrolled in the Blue Frog army last week.

And I have noticed that several of the Viagra and Penny Stock spams I was getting daily have all but dissapeared. The only persisten ones I have not been able to shake are the Japanese spammers who seem to have escalated their mailings...

The idea is a great one, Hit the spammers back and hit them hard and where it hurts... with their advertisers. I highly reccomend the Blue Frog solution. While I have not been a member long enough to see my spam completely dissapear, it seems to be working with some of the spammers already, and that is a blessing.

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Posted by: PFMC at May 25, 2006 03:39 AM