Mr Waledac: The Peter North of Spamming

The always reliable Brian Krebs with an amazing story of Russian spammers, huge botnets and oddly named pwnsters.

Microsoft on Monday named a Russian man as allegedly responsible for running the Kelihos botnet, a spam engine that infected an estimated 40,000 PCs. But closely held data seized from a huge spam affiliate program suggests that the driving force behind Kelihos is a different individual who commanded a much larger spam empire, and who is still coordinating spam campaigns for hire.