Inside the 'Ron Paul' Spam Botnet ::: Daily Python-URL
2007-12-06
Joe Stewart (SecureWorks): Inside the 'Ron Paul' Spam Botnet
["By monitoring and correlating network flows, the command center was soon tracked to a server at a co-location facility located in the U.S., one that is well known to malware researchers as a frequent host of this type of activity. /.../ With the help of Spamhaus, we were able to not only shut down the command and control server, we were able to obtain the running software from the server, written in the Python language."]