Storm: Friends In High Places

The Storm Worm is notable for it's perniciousness and adaptability, not only in cyberspace, but in the real world as well. The Washington Post reports:

"Federal law enforcement officials who need to know have already learned the identities of those responsible for running the Storm worm network, but that U.S. authorities have thus far been prevented from bringing those responsible to justice due to a lack of cooperation from officials in St. Petersburg, Russia, where the Storm worm authors are thought to reside."

That report comes to us via Information Week's George Hulme, who concludes::

"It's no doubt a profitable business model, as attackers get paid for sending out the spam, as well as a cut of the profits generated by the spam.

And it seems the spam, and presumably the profits, are not going to stop any time soon...

So it looks like we know who the authors are, and they’re infecting thousands of systems and raking in millions in illegal profits and there's not much we can do about it."

That conclusion was also reached by our Ed Moltzen, who recently noted::

"Would Storm come to halt if its creators were further pursued by international law enforcement agencies?

'All evidence points to the contrary,' said [Paul Ferguson, network architect for Trend Micro]. 'At this point, knowing who's behind it is not contributing to stopping the criminal organization.'"

UPDATE: At TechRadar ,they're sceptical that Storm is making 'millions of dollars a day.'

Posted by Joe Caponi at 11:45 AM, February 11, 2008

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