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2007-10-22 Science & Technology

In millions of Windows, the perfect Storm is gathering

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-22 06:58|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 It gets worse. Storm's delivery mechanism changes regularly. It began as PDF spam, then morphed into e-cards and YouTube invites. It then started posting blog-comment spam, again trying to trick viewers into clicking infected links. Similarly, the Storm email changes all the time, with new, topical subject lines and text. And last month Storm began attacking anti-spam sites focused on identifying it.

hmmmmmmm

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-22 07:43|| 2007-10-22 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like all the email my mother's friends send.

Disconnect them from the web and we should be fine. ;)

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-10-22 09:31|| 2007-10-22 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 eCards were so 2002, I didn't open any of the emails...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-10-22 09:33|| 2007-10-22 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 It's also developed some interesting ways of keeping researchers like Enright at bay. "If you're a researcher and you hit the pages hosting the malware too much... there is an automated process that automatically launches a denial of service [attack] against you," he said. This attack, which floods the victim's computer with a deluge of Internet traffic, knocked part of the UC San Diego network offline when it first struck.

Lately Storm has been responsible for a large quantity of "pump and dump" spam, which tries to temporarily boost the price of penny stocks. But one area that does not seem to be of interest to Storm's creators is identity theft. "Believe it or not, credit card numbers aren't worth that much money," Enright said. "It's much better to make money... via pump and dump."

Storm Worm Now Just a Squall

Posted by KBK 2007-10-22 11:40|| 2007-10-22 11:40|| Front Page Top

#5 So, the sky is not falling??? Damn, someone better tell al gaurdian.
Well, at least, I got to post the computer melt pic, it never fails to crack me up.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-22 12:24|| 2007-10-22 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 eCards were so 2002, I didn't open any of the emails...

So barkwards. I haven't used anything but PeeMail for years.

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-22 16:35|| 2007-10-22 16:35|| Front Page Top

#7 "Microsoft says despite all of the media attention that Storm has garnered, the worm's ranks still pale in comparison to other families of malware, noting that the Renos family of malware has been removed from 668,362 distinct machines, while the Zlob family has been removed from 664,258 machines."

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-22 18:09|| 2007-10-22 18:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Good times.

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