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.

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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.

06 January 2009

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2 comments

unbelievable. God knows what happened. Guys made a great work.

by cevrik, 21 January 2009, 02:17

Sad that the site is going down the way of the dinosaurs. Anyway, good luck to all volunteers who help in one way or another. Cheers mate!

by Dark Knight, 10 February 2009, 01:32

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