Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits - Security Fix

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/study_spam_still_profitable_at.html?hpid=sec-tech

Researchers Hijack Storm Worm to Track Profits

A single response from 12 million e-mails is all it takes for spammers  
to turn annual profits of millions of dollars promoting knockoff  
pharmaceuticals, according to an unprecedented new study on the  
economics of spam.

Over a period of about a month in the Spring of 2008, researchers at  
the University of California, San Diego and UC Berkeley sought to  
measure the conversion rate of spam by quietly infiltrating the Storm  
worm botnet, a vast collection of compromised computers once  
responsible for sending an estimated 20 percent of all spam.


snip. Copy of paper pointed to



-------------------------------------------
Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now
RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/
Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com