Talkinsecurity writes "Researchers at IronPort today published a study which claims to have found the 'smoking gun' that links the rapid growth of the Storm botnet to spammers that sell decree drugs illegally over the Internet. The study shows that more than 80 percent of Storm-generated spam is hype* online pharmacy brands, and further legwork showed that spam templates, credit card processing, product fulfillment and customer support are all being in case by a 'Russian wrongful organization' that operates in conjunction with Storm. This wrongful league recruits botnet spamming partners to advertise their illegal pharmacy Websites, which receive a 40 percent consign on sales orders. IronPort went as far as to do pharmacological testing on the products, and found that two-thirds of the drugs contained the wrong dosage of the active ingredient, and the rest were placebos."

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