Earlier this year, I saw some screenshots of the Zunker bot and itscontrolling interface. I became curious about the existence of othersimilar interfaces and began paying a bit more attention to the spamcoming into my inbox on a personal account. After a few weeks ofwandering through IP blocks referenced by the spam, I ran across anopen directory containing a few screen shots of what looked likeanother interface actively spamming multiple products.
The following screen shot shows a statistics screen for a botnetthey are currently using. Similar to the Zunker interface, thisinterface also has the ability to group by country. It looks like thefeature is broken though, as you can only see one bot, which isoriginating from Poland. Given that, it is tempting to presume theowner is Polish; however, the interface's text is entirely in Englishand the screen shot was found on a Russian server. It could, however,mean that the person leasing this interface is controlling it from...