[pchelpers] Storm Worm Botnet Partitions May Be Up For Sale

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 16, @12:00PM
from the if-only-they'd-use-their-powers-for-good dept. 

Bowling for cents writes "There is evidence that the massive Storm Worm
botnet is being broken up into smaller networks, and a ZDNet post thinks
that's a surefire sign that the CPU power is up for sale to spammers and
denial-of-service attackers. The latest variants of Storm are now using
a 40-byte key to encrypt their Overnet/eDonkey peer-to-peer traffic,
meaning that each node will only be able to communicate with nodes that
use the same key. This effectively allows the Storm author to segment
the Storm botnet into smaller networks. This could be a precursor to
selling Storm to other spammers, as an end-to-end spam botnet system,
complete with fast-flux DNS and hosting capabilities."

Source:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/16/155209&from=rss
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