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| DoS Attacks Dropping As Spam Rises |
| Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 20:52 by Simon Spicer |
DoS attacks are falling as spam has becoming the easier, quicker, less risky way to cheat people out of their money.
Symantec believes the fall in denial of service attacks it has witnessed recently is mostly because of the difficulty in launching these attacks, and the trouble they have to go through if the attack is successful, as getting the victims to pay is really the hard part. However, sending spam poses less risk, and more rewards.
The first half of 2006 showed 6,110 DoS attacks per day, and the number has dropped nearly 1,000 in the second half of 2006, and nearly 52% of those attacks where targeted at the US.
"DoS attacks are loud and risky. Whenever a bot-network owner carries out a denial of service attack, they run the risk of losing some of their bots." Yazan Gable, researcher of Symantec , says.
He also adds that the cost that must be put up-front for setting up a botnet is a deterrent, as there is no real promise for money in the future, and the loss of an entire bot network is possible.
"It is likely that bot network owners are now moving away from DoS extortion, and towards more lucrative ventures, like spam."
What doesn't surprise anyone is that the last half of 2006 showed an increase in spam. |
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| Actually the author of the original blog on the Symantec site was Yazan Gable, not Yazan Gables... |
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| Hi, Thanks for the input, this has now been corrected. |
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| "Yazan Gable"... why's that name sound so familiar? Has he been on TV or something? |
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| sounds like nonsense...why would spammers use bots...when they can get open servers cheaper, for less time...of course a denial of server would be a one off attack. |
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