Tag: storm
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New peer-to-peer botnet discovered
New botnet shares fast flux DNS and other similarities with Storm and Waledac. In the last few days of 2010, security researchers discovered a new botnet that shares many similarities with the Waledac and Storm botnets. The botnet started with a spam campaign that sent millions of emails claiming to be holiday e-cards – a…
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Researchers crack into Storm botnet
Comms channels decrypted, automated removal possible. A group of German academics claim to have deciphered communications protocols used by the infamous ‘Storm’ botnet, allowing them to monitor infected nodes and control systems, and potentially to deactivate and disinfect them remotely. The collaborative operation between two German universities saw samples of the Storm malware, and the…
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Riders on a Storm
Researchers hijack botnet – and find spam success rates lower than previously believed. Less than 1 in 12 million spam emails sent through the infamous Storm botnet led to a purchase attempt, according to researchers at the University of California in San Diego and Berkeley – a much lower spam success rate than previously estimated.…
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‘Kraken’ monster botnet causing controversy
As latest botnet scare debated, Storm keeps on blowing. Recent reports of a massive botnet, apparently sneaking its trojans past security software and far outnumbering better-known infections such as ‘Storm’, have been dismissed as hype by some analysts but firmly upheld by the researchers who first alerted on the threat. The botnet has been dubbed…
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HP ships infected USB keys
Autorun worms found on batch of server setup devices. A batch of USB thumb drives containing software intended to assist in the setup of servers have been found to contain some nasty extras, in the shape of worms using the autorun feature to infect systems connected to the removable devices. The drives were shipped to…
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Google Groups and Blogspot used to serve malware
Company finds own IP address to be serving most malware. Malware writers have created thousands of Google Groups with the sole purpose of serving malware, Sunbelt reports . On the Groups pages, visitors are shown several images with explicit pornography, as well as what looks like an embedded YouTube video. However, when clicking on the…
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April Storm
April Fools’ Day emails contain new variant of infamous worm. Security researchers report a new wave of spam emails being sent out. The emails, which use subject lines such as ‘Gotcha! April Fool!’ or ‘Surprise! The joke’s on you.’, contain a small piece of text, an image as well as a link to an IP-based…