Comment Re:No thinking needed, actually. This is just stup (Score 2) 220
I saw the same shit with spam. I used to receive a lot of backscatter from some spammer using my E-mail address as a fake from address. I received a ton of threats, random DoS attacks, mailbombs, ping-floods, and a lot of stuff because various dipshits couldn't understand the basics about what an open relay was.
The more ironic thing was finding out that before the deluge happened, I got an extortion letter threatening that postmaster and other E-mail IDs on the web from the site would be used as fake originations.
So some business with the absolute bargain-basement IT staff, chock full of bargain-basement novices is going to decide if a compromised workstation the receiving department at another company is sufficient cause enough to shut that firm down? This would be like carpet-bombing an entire office building because a bank robber ducked into the building's lobby.
Here is where real/virtual separate and analogies doesn't work: It is not difficult to cover one's tracks, especially with how many botnets there are on dynamic IP address ranges.