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| Study Links Storm Botnet’s Growth To Illegal Drugs                 |
|   from the nobody-saw-that-one-coming dept.                        |
|   posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 11, @12:22 (Security)       |
|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/11/1453251 |
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[0]talkinsecurity writes “Researchers at IronPort today published a study
which claims to have found the ’smoking gun’ that links the [1]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.”

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1. http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=156139&WT.svl=news1_1