...California at San Diego (UCSD) and the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley, Calif., concludes that the widespread, spam-distributing Storm botnet earns only about $3.5 million per year. "The total daily revenue attributable...
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-16-003-35-SC-SW-NT
...including news sites -- for years. In 2006, a widespreadspam campaign impersonated the BBC Web site, promising...timely bulletins. Such services are threatened by the widespreadspam campaigns, which inevitably prompt IT departments...
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/08/msnbc-cnn-hit-b.html