Festi botnet

The Festi botnet, also known by its alias of Spamnost, is a botnet mostly involved in email spam and denial of service attacks.

History and operations

The Festi botnet was first discovered around Autumn 2009. At this time it was estimated that the botnet itself consisted of roughly 25000 infected machines, while having a spam volume capacity of roughly 2.5 billion spam emails a day. More recent estimates - dated August 2012 - display that the botnet is sending spam from 250000 unique IP addresses,[1] a quarter of the total amount of 1 million detected IP's sending spam mails.[2] Besides being capable of sending email spam, research into the Festi botnet demonstrated that it is also capable of performing denial of service attacks.[3][4]

gollark: In my time as unofficial and unwilling tech support person, I found that often the real problem with the computer setup was the user.
gollark: It's ridiculous, totally violating the constitution.
gollark: I asked the government for my bear arms, and they said "no", and when I got them *myself* they just went "those are an endangered species, why are you cutting off their arms, please stop that".
gollark: And should need a safe nuclear submarine to store it in.
gollark: Yes, recreational nuke owners should have to pass a nuclear weapons safety and operation test.

See also

References
  1. Kirk, Jeremy (Aug 16, 2012). "Spamhaus Declares Grum Botnet Dead, but Festi Surges". PC World. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  2. Saarinen, Juha (Aug 20, 2012). "Festi botnet cranks up spam volumes". ITNews. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  3. Krebs, Brian (June 2012). "Who Is the 'Festi' Botmaster?". Krebs on Security. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
  4. Matrosov, Aleksandr (May 11, 2012). "King of Spam: Festi botnet analysis". ESET. Retrieved 1 January 2013.


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