monkeys.dom UPL being DDOSed to death

Tue Sep 23 19:38:56 UTC 2003

Hi!

After Osirusoft was shut down most likely Infinite-Monkeys are doing down 
also ?? 

See:

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[Mimedefang] monkeys.dom UPL being DDOSed to death 
Jon R. Kibler mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com 
Tue Sep 23 14:15:01 2003 

Greetings to all:

I have some really sad news. I just got off the telephone with Ron 
Guilmette who runs the monkeys.com Unsecured Proxies List DNSBL. I hate to 
say it, but monkeys.com has been killed. It has been DDOSed to death.

Ron says that every aspect of his network is undergoing a massive DDOS 
attack from thousands of IPs -- apparently many/all spoofed. He has tried 
to get law enforcement to investigate, but to no avail. He indicated that 
this is probably the end of his service.

This makes two DNSBLs that have been DDOSed to death recently. Which one 
is next? NJABL? ORDB?

The computer security industry really needs to figure out how to get law 
enforcement to take these attacks seriously. It would only take a few good 
prosecutions to put an end to these types of attacks. Any 
thoughts/suggestions?

This is really a dark day for those of us fighting spam. I looks like the 
spammers have won a BIG battle. The only question now is who will be the 
causality in this war?

Jon R. Kibler
A.S.E.T., Inc.
Charleston, SC  USA

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This is pretty sad. 

bye,
Raymond.