FTC Shuts Down Spammers
by Wyatt WalterE-mail administrators around the world are rejoicing after a large spam-sending organization was caught and shut down today. The Federal Trade Commission was able to make a federal court freeze funds of the group known as HerbalKing which at once point was said to be responsible for approximately one-third of spam. Spam has been estimated as being 90% of all e-mail traffic. While the freeze probably will not actually affect spam traffic as a whole, it is definitely the largest of its kind.
Most spam, including the messages sent by HerbalKing are sent using groups of computers containing malware called botnets. It’s likely that after HerbalKing is shut down that another spam group will take over this botnet and use it to send spam, but it could be a sign progress on the anti-spam front from law enforcement.
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Oct 14th, 2008
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