Storm, Nugache lead dangerous new botnet barrage

[Peter Gutmann]

Tyler Durden <camera_lumina at hotmail.com> writes:

>Someone want to explain this? Does Storm exchange keys on behalf of the
>infected hosts?  Why encrypt the traffic?

Enterprise DRM for the botnet.

(Alternatively, "because they can".  They're not paying for the overhead, it
doesn't really make much sense not to encrypt everything).

Peter.