We all hate spam, and it keeps on coming. But just how do spammers make money, and is it the fabled millions people have claimed? A new study carried out earlier this year by computer scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego saw the seven-strong team hijack part of the Storm botnet to discover the answers, according to the BBC.
They created several “proxy bots” between the Storm control system and hijacked PCs, and used them to control 75,869 computers, then created their own fake spam which was sent out.
