Israeli-based based company Blue Security maintained has an encrypted list of 522,000 of its client emails for which the spammers should stop sending junk e-mail. But because those sort of requests tend to be ignored, Blue Security took them to a new level: it bombarded the spammers with requests from all 522,000 of its customers at the same time.

That led to a flood of Internet traffic(DDOS attack) so heavy that it disrupted the spammers' ability to send emails to other victims a crippling effect that caused a handful of known spammers to comply with the requests.

Russia based spammer counterattacked using tens of thousands of hijacked computers, the spammer flooded Blue Security with so much Internet traffic that it blocked legitimate visitors from going to Bluesecurity website, as well as to other Web sites.

Source: Washington Post


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