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+-   Storm Worm Botnet Partitions for Sale-> on Monday October 15 2007, @05:47PM Bowling for cents

Submitted by Bowling for cents on Monday October 15 2007, @05:47PM
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Bowling for cents writes "There is evidence that the massive Storm Worm botnet is being broken up into smaller networks, 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."
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