Cisco researchers identify link between originators of malware, such as the Storm botnet, and illegal pharmaceutical supply chain businesses that recruit the botnets to send spam promoting Viagra and many other prescription drugs. The “Canadian Pharmacy” Website, which many Storm emails promote, is estimated to have sales of $150 million per year by itself. Russian criminal organization that operates in conjunction with Storm recruits botnet spamming partners to advertise their illegal pharmacy Websites, report says. Storm is using a variety of sophisticated social engineering tricks and Web-based exploits to recruit bots, researchers say.”]
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