CastleCops closes down

Security community project comes to an end.

Well-known volunteer group

CastleCops

, which ran campaigns to identify and bring down spamming and phishing operations for over five successful years, has been quietly shut down.

The website, formerly hosting a range of resources, forums and reporting systems and bookmarked by many security watchers, now carries only a simple farewell message, an exhortation to keep up the fight, and a promise to refund any recent donations where possible. The demise comes six months after

CastleCops

founder and lead maintainer Paul Laudanski took a full-time role with

Microsoft

.

Obituaries of the organisation are in

The Register


here

and in

DarkReading


here

.

Posted on 06 January 2009 by

Virus Bulletin