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Email "blacklist" extortion

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One of our shared hosting clients had his Wordpress installation compromised, and the attacker installed a PHP shell, then some scripts to send spam. By the time we noticed it, the email queue had grown to 240,000 pending emails queued.

Anyway, while cleaning up the blacklists:

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$113 to click a button to remove the entry? Srsly? That's like a 100,000% markup.

Anyone want to become a terrorist organization and extort companies by join me in creating a blacklist that can be used to hold hosts hostage in return for ransom on their IPs for the greater good of the internet??

/rant


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