Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits Nov 10, 2008, 16 :33 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3922 reads) (Other stories by Brian Krebs)
"The teams at Berkley and UCSD conducted the experiment by impersonating a key component of the Storm worm network used to hand off instructions from the worm's master control servers to the "worker bots" -- the tens of thousands of infected end-user systems that do all the spamming.
"This allowed them to redirect a subset of the spam to virtual storefronts created by the researchers to mimic the pharmaceutical Web sites advertised by the real Storm spam."
