Spam It Chats About SPM, the Srizbi Botmaster
Summary: Krebs on Security publishes chat logs from October 2007 in which SpamIt technician Stratos and Dmitry "SaintD" Stupin negotiate with SPM, the Srizbi botmaster, over a $500 payment and a server, and later discuss placing SPM's logo on the Spamdot.biz forum in exchange for SpamIt's logo in his spam software. In the logs, Stratos reports SPM's spam ratio at 1:25 versus Google's 1:60 to 1:70, and SPM says his plan is to become the only system on the market, claiming he has already destroyed one competing system and that Google offered him a bribe to go out of business.
Key Takeaway: The operators running SpamIt and Spamdot.biz were openly trading logo placement and account terms with the botmaster behind Srizbi, the same botnet Secureworks documented sending Ron Paul spam - a reminder that the spam economy's suppliers, affiliates and forum moderators were the same small set of people, and that a single botnet controller could set the terms for everyone downstream.
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