Rick Wesson of Support Intelligence, LLC conducted extensive research of existing botnets. He spends his days looking up active botnets on the Web and penetrating those for research. Occasionally he would call the victims to tell them their identities have been compromised, and people would get mad, and he’d find himself on the receiving end of threats and frustrations, when he told the person their social security number and credit card information.
Chevron is one of the companies mentioned. Chevron’s corp network was compromised to send out large amounts of spam. Indeed, why would you bother with pesky home desktops, if you can compromise a large corp network hooked up to a T1.
