Cisco seems to be trying to convince people that the bleedin' obvious is news ...
"Security researchers at Ciscos IronPort say they have pieced together the complex con operation behind the Storm Worm, a persistent Web threat. The botnets purpose, they say, was essentially to act as a virtual dealer of prescription and often bogus medication, sometimes enlisting work-from-home employees who thought they were doing legitimate tasks. [...] By converting spam into high-value pharmaceutical purchases, these supply chain enterprises allow the monetization of spamming botnets, providing an enormous profit motivation for botnet attacks and continuous innovation." [Translation: spammers and malware authors do it because they can make money - rms] "Among the more insidious related criminal activities involves the enlistment of workers to collect and deliver funds from phishing and fraud schemes that have been initiated through the Storm virus." [Translation: "work-from-home" spam recruits money mules - rms] http://www.technewsworld.com/story/The-Storm-Worms-Elaborate-Con-Game- 63357.html?welcome=1213186145 ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are currently being told to follow our bliss. However, tradition tells us that ignorance is bliss. Taking these two statements together would explain a lot about modern society. http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
