One of the world’s largest spam botnets has finally been eradicated. At its peak – as recently as January 2012 – the Grum botnet was the largest spamming network in the world.

Spam levels worldwide are expected to drop as a result, although it seems probable that newer, more sophisticated botnets will rise to take Grum’s place. Enjoy the respite while you can.

Credit goes to several dedicated security researchers and anti-spam companies, including FireEye researcher Atif Mushtaq, researchers from anti-spam organisation Spamhaus, the Russian Computer Security Incident Response Team and other experts in the field.

Techweek Europe has all the details in their article on Grum’s demise.