Low and slow has always been the right way to do things. I wouldn't be surprised if this goes on for many years and involves many people that are honestly innocent. As the work gathers and collects and spreads, my assumption would be that it will dump out assets (of one type or another) to random individuals that it has harvested account info from. Once that starts, there will be investigations everywhere, simply watch the news until the enforcers get tired of chasing or keep trying to dump bits and pieces and give it back if caught and play stupid. If it looks random then playing stupid will be a good bet to not get hit with this one.
Whoever did it is going to get theirs at some point and I am sure they wont like it. The longer it goes, the worse the return on investment will end up being as the penalty will likely be very high.
From the tech side I am interested in the ability to morph and still not get caught? Update s tool that they think is locked down to find out that it has been updated to reflect many more sites. How did the creator detect the block? Why wasn't the update tracked when the worm was updated? Where is the information on the current investigation? If they can't stop it, then they should share more of the in-depth steps that are being taken and enroll the assistance of the open-source mentality and enlist everyone interested in stopping this worm.
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