Storm Worm Authors Identified? To Be Arrested?

The article goes into detail on the difficulties of extradition to the United States if American officials request it so I won't belabor that point here.

What is important is whether or not this could mean the end of the Storm Worm? Unfortunately not. We already know from research done by Joe Stewart that recent variants of the Storm Worm are using a key to encrypt their P2P traffic basically segregating the network into chunks that use this same key to communicate. This means that these portions of the botnet could be sold off and used for whatever purposes the buyer wanted to use them for: more spam, different malware, etc. If the Storm Worm code is also made available, then there is nothing stopping Storm from living on.

Even scarier is the notion that we have seen the evolution of malware and it only gets nastier and nastier with one idea building off the previous. So, even if we don't see additional specific Storm Worm variants if/when the authors are arrested, the concepts and code will certainly live on and take on new shapes in the next popular malware strains.