The public botnets@ mailing list, where malicious activity on the Internet can be openly shared, has been revived, and boy is it active.
Warning: live samples and malicious URLs are openly shared there.
NANOG relevance: These can be operationally used by ISP security operators not of those "in the know" to block new attacks and to identify abusers in their own networks.
Reminder: this mailing list was started to take off-topic traffic from
NANOG.
Mailing list URL: http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/botnets
Reasons, thinking and explanations:
http://gadievron.blogspot.com/2008/08/public-sharing-and-new-statregy-in.html
Excerpt: