The most powerful Internet weapon on the planet is being protected by the Russian government. The weapon in question is the Storm botnet. This is the largest botnet ever seen, and while the United States has traced its creators to Russia, the government there refuses to cooperate in shutting Storm down.
The Storm network is believed capable to shutting down any military or commercial site on the planet, or do some major damage in ways that have not yet been experienced. There's never been anything quite like Storm.
“For instance, Russia has only 70 radiation therapy machines, while there are around 3,000 in U.S. clinics,” Davydov said. To make matters worse, of the very few machines that Russia does have, a large proportion are outdated and are therefore of little help.
Russians (at least .ru email accounts) are great spammers, too.