Storm Worm botnet up for sale
The Storm worm botnet - responsible for plenty of global IT misery - seems to be getting chopped up for sale to cyber-dodgies.
Joe Stewart, a blogger at security specialist SecureWorks and expert on Storm, says the new variants are using a 40-byte key to encrypt their Overnet peer-to-peer traffic.
Each node can only communicate with nodes using the same key.
This, he wrote in a blog today, allows the Storm author to divide the botnet into smaller networks.
