We Know Who's Behind Storm Worm

jmason reminds us of a story from a few weeks back that got little attention, adding "This doesn't seem to be just bluster; as far as I can tell, everyone who knows the RBN now agrees that this seems likely." Brian Krebs's Security Fix blog at the Washington Post carried a story about the Storm worm containing some pretty staggering allegations. "Dmitri Alperovitch [of Secure Computing] said federal law enforcement officials who need to know have already learned the identities of those responsible for running the Storm worm network, but that US authorities have thus far been prevented from bringing those responsible to justice due to a lack of cooperation from officials in St. Petersburg, Russia, where the Storm worm authors are thought to reside. In a recent investigative series on cyber crime featured on washingtonpost.com, St. Petersburg was fingered as the host city for one of the Internet's most profligate and cyber-crime enabling operation — the Russian Business Network. Alperovitch blames the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the political influence of operatives within the Federal Security Service (the former Soviet KGB) for the protection he says is apparently afforded to cybercrime outfits such as RBN and the Storm worm gang. 'The right people now know who the Storm worm authors are,' Alperovitch said. 'It's incredibly hard because a lot of the FSB leadership and Putin himself originate from there, where there are a great deal of people with connections in high places.'"

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what concerns me ....

[WindBourne]

is that you may be wrong about us. The fact that W. gagged Sibel edmunds (in particular to hide that top republicans were traitors and sold our nuclear secrets to iran, turkey, and pakistan), and has one of the most corrupt admin of all time is horrible. I even know that the republican congress would overlook all this. But the dems are now in control and have done nothing. They told sibel that one they controlled congress that she would be ungagged. None of it is true. Heck, they are debating to allow W, his admin, and the telcos off of illegal wiretaps (china style; everybody monitored and all information passed to the DOJ, FBI, and white house). IOW, they are no different than the pubs.