You may have noticed that spamnation.info has been a little difficult to access for the last couple of days. This was because the host that it lives on came under a sustained DDoS attack from a botnet. I don't yet know which botnet was involved or whether spamnation.info was the target of the attack. We share space with several other sites that publish information about various kinds of Internet crime, any one of which could be a target for attacks by angry criminals.

The last time spamnation.info was hit by a DDoS, the attack was launched from the Storm Worm/Zhelatin botnet, apparently by someone who was upset that we were publishing a record of stocks advertised by spam. It's probably just a coincidence that this new attack comes at the time when the Storm Worm has resurfaced, and there have been two relatively high-volume stock spam runs of a kind that we haven't seen since the Useltons and Alan Ralsky went down. But it does give me an odd feeling of 'everything old is new again'.

Steps have been taken, defenses have been strengthened, and we're back on the air. Thanks, as ever, go to our friends in high places who make it possible for spamnation.info to continue to exist in the face of this type of attack.