Simon Willison’s Weblog

Global Hackers Create a New Online Crime Economy (via) Fascinating, detailed look at the evolution of the hacker service economy. Of particular interest: a web application that sells access to hacked machines to identity thieves on a timeshare basis.

# 17th October 2007, 9:46 pm / bruce-schneier, hackers, identitytheft, security

The Storm Worm. Bruce Schneier describes the Storm Worm, a fantastically advanced piece of malware that’s been spreading for nearly a year and is proving almost impossible to combat. Its effects are virtually invisible but infected machines are added to a multi-million machine botnet apparently controlled by anonymous Russian hackers.

# 6th October 2007, 12:25 am / botnets, bruce-schneier, hackers, malware, security, storm, worm