Simon Sez

The Storm worm continues to fascinate me....

It began as a worm which brought compromised computers into a botnet....one which quickly became the largest in the history of the Internet. There is one person/organization at the helm of the greatest computing power on the planet right now. And he's not one of the good guys.

The Storm botnet currently has orders of magnitude more power than the most powerful super-computers on the planet.

And it's evolving.

It appears that the author has introduced the concept of encryption into the P2P network created by the botnet. The current theory is that this is being done so that the author can begin to sell off portions of the botnet to spammers and packet monkeys.

Someone is going to get VERY rich off of this....

More details in this ZDnet article:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=592