November 2009: FireEye takes down the Mega-D botnet.June 2009: 15,000 illicit websites go dark at 3FN after the Federal Trade Commission convinced a northern California judge that 3FN was a black-hat service provider.Spam Nation is definitely a cyber security canon candidate, and you should have read this by now. Krebs’s weird symbiotic relationship with Vrublevsky is worth the read by itself.
The competition between Vrublevsky and Nechvolod escalated into something that Krebs calls the Pharma Wars and Krebs gives us a bird’s-eye view into the details of that escalation that eventually destroyed both men and the industry they helped to create. His relationship with two competitive pharmaceutical spammers-Pavel Vrublevsky and Dimitry Nechvolod-is a big bag of crazy and is the key storyline throughout the book. This period just happens to coincide with Krebs’s rise in popularity as one of the leading cyber security journalists in the industry. In Spam Nation, Brian Krebs covers a key portion of our cyber security and cyber crime history: 2007–2013, that period when we started to learn about the Russian Business Network, bulletproof-hosting providers, fast-flux obfuscation, criminal best business practices, underground cyber crime forums, and strange-sounding botnet names like Conficker, Rustock, Storm, and Waledac.
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