CastleCops closes down

Posted by   Virus Bulletin on   Jan 6, 2009

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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