Internet Service Provider Pricewert was shutdown last week upon accusations by the Federal Trade Commission because it was hosting spam bots and other botnets. The amount of spam on the Internet (90% of all email is spam and phishing), dropped by about 15%.
Here we are a week later, and spam volume is pretty much back to normal 90% levels again.
The Internet was designed to be a self-healing network that can come back and re-route traffic in case parts of the network go down. It seems like these properties also apply to electronic crime networks for spam, phishing and malware. A self-healing electronic crime grid.
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