research worker at the International Computer Science Institute and UC - San Diego have reach 100 % success rates in filter junk e-mail from a specific botnet . The scheme ? Capture the opposition , and make him talk .
A botnet is a calculator that ’s been commandeer to send spam out into the world without its possessor ’s noesis . By run a captured software system bot on a motorcar and analyzing the contents of 1,000 message that it station out , the squad was capable to decipher what templet it was using to diverge its missives and elude filters . They then based their filter on that template .
The effect ? A 100 % success pace in hinder emails from that botnet , and — more significantly — no fake positives . That is to say , the filter ended up letting every legitimate e-mail through and blocked all of the spam .
The full upshot of the study will be made public in March , but until then it ’s dear to see that the good guys have a little Jack Bauer in ’em in theescalating spam arms race . [ New Scientist ]
https://gizmodo.com/botnet-baddies-setting-up-own-isps-for-unfettered-spamm-5432201
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