P2P Spam?

Sgt York writes "In a NYT article (republished in the Houston Chronicle, no subscription required) experts at CERT, F-secure, Trusecure, and the Hall of Justice (see article) think that SoBig.F is a spam scheme in the making. They say that SoBig.F is the 6th variant in an ongoing experiment with the possible goal of setting up a distributed spam network, to be rented out to the highest bidder. If that is their goal, they are well on their way. Another disturbing note in the article is that "In the case of four of the six programs, a new version was launched immediately after the self-timed expiration date of the preceding one". SoBig.F expires in two weeks. "

Comments

huh?

[captain_craptacular]

So someones business plan is to admit to writing/distributing the worm and then rent out the affected boxes?

I must be missing something because it seems to me that such a business would be immediately sues into oblivion.

6 degrees attack

[bigattichouse]

I would have assumed that this was a six degrees attack on sensitive structures, given the back doors. Flood the network with viruses, and some moron will eventually lead you to the computer you've been actually targetting.