Study Links Storm Botnet's Growth To Illegal Drugs

[Steve]

talkinsecurity writes "Researchers at IronPort today published a study which claims to have found the "smoking gun" that links the rapid growth of the Storm botnet to spammers that sell prescription drugs illegally over the Internet. The study shows that more than 80 percent of Storm-generated spam is advertising online pharmacy brands, and further investigation showed that spam templates, credit card processing, product fulfillment and customer support are all being provided by a "Russian criminal organization" that operates in conjunction with Storm. This criminal organization recruits botnet spamming partners to advertise their illegal pharmacy Websites, which receive a 40 percent commission on sales orders. IronPort went as far as to do pharmacological testing on the products, and found that two-thirds of the drugs contained the wrong dosage of the active ingredient, and the rest were placebos."http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?f.../06/11/1453251
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