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
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