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Rustock Botnet Suspect Sought Job at Google

Summary: Microsoft's second status report to a Seattle district court names Vladimir Alexandrovich Shergin as the owner of a Webmoney account used to rent Rustock control servers, and lists a second suspect known as "Cosma2k" possibly named Dmitri, Artem, or Sergey Sergeev. The trail runs through a Webmoney account shared by three of the top ten Spamit.com affiliates and an email address tied to a resume page reading "I want to work in Google."

Bottom line: Microsoft dismantled Rustock in March but is still trying to locate the people behind it, and the only leads in court filings are a payment account and a job resume - a reminder that botnet infrastructure often traces back to a handful of rented servers and shared accounts rather than a large organization.

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