Slashdot | Storm Worm Botnet Partitions May Be Up For Sale

Holy BOTNET Batman!

Having JUST posted a message about the NVD from US-CERT, I’m trying
to get back to work and read this feed from Slashdot. It seems that Joe
Stewart, an information security research specialist with SecureWorks
has seen evidence that the massive Storm Worm botnet is being broken up
and the resulting compute cycles are up for sale to the highest bidder.

Not just for pimple faced teens anymore, this represents one of the
first trends of mercenary computing I’ve seen. The Storm Worm network
has been described as the worlds most powerful supercomputer in this
ZDNet article: (Storm Worm botnet could be world’s most powerful supercomputer).
So what does this mean? It means that this isn’t about hacking anymore,
cyber-terrorism is a real threat to government and commercial
enterprise.