abstract:The typical lifecycle of spam that originates from a botnet:(1) Spammer's web site (2) Spammer (3) Spamware (4) Infected computers (5) Virus or trojan (6) Mail servers (7) Users (8) Web traffic
Over the past week, researchers at Finnish security company F-secure have identified what they say is the first use of Storm's massive "botnet"--a collection of hundreds of thousands of computers hijacked with hidden software--to steal users' banking information.
For nearly a year, cyber-security researchers have tracked the Storm worm as its malicious code spread across the Internet, drawing computers into a growing botnet of hijacked computers.