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What a great headline. I admit it was stolen from a really fascinating blog post from Wired.com.

The posts details how the StormWorm botnet, a massive collection of personal computers from around the world who are unknowingly infected by a virus, has started to use these computers to solicit bank account passwords through phishing emails.

Every security geek’s favorite zombie computer army from 2007 — the Storm Worm botnet — has a new trick for 2008, using its huge collection of infected computers to send out phishing emails directing people to fake banking sites that it cleverly also hosts on the computers it remotely controls. The phishing campaign caught the attention of both F-Secure and Trend Micro, who say Storm has never been involved in phishing up to this point. The new campaign may indicate, according to F-Secure, that Storm’s controllers have figured out how to divide the massive army into clusters which it is now renting out to others.

Members of this zombie army probably have no idea their computers are being used to steal the bank accounts of their friends, families, co-workers and complete strangers. Click here to read the complete post.