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Storm worm 'making millions a day'
Compromised machines sending out highly profitable spam, says IBM security
strategist
Clive Akass,
Personal Computer World 11 Feb 2008
The people behind the Storm worm are making millions of pounds a day by using
it to generate revenue, according to IBM’s principal web security strategist.
Joshua Corman, of IBM Internet Security
Systems, said that in the past it had been assumed that web security attacks
were essential ego driven. But now attackers fell in three camps.
‘I call them my three Ps, profit, politics and prestige,’ he said during a
debate at a NetEvents forum in Barcelona.
The Storm worm, which had been around about a year, had been a tremendous
financial success because it created a botnet of compromised machines that could
be used to launch profitable spam attacks.
Not only do the criminals get money simply for sending out the spam in much
more quantity than could be sent by a single machine but they get a cut of any
business done off the spam.
The weak point in this case was the end user who visits a compromised site or
who falls for a trick of social engineering.
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