After just over a year, Storm has become an intractable part of the Internet environment. Over Valentine’s Day it accounted for up to 5% of all Internet traffic, coming to life after months of relative idleness. Read more in this accessible article: Storm botnet takes advantage of Valentine’s Day
Dark Reading—CMP Technology’s offering for the occasional suit who thinks about security issues—runs down the three biggest bot-nets currently out there. Not a lot of technical analysis going on but interesting in a big picture sort of way. I’m still amazed that Rbot is still alive and kicking to the degree it is.
Storm takes on a new guise aimed at the paranoid set. This stuff is just incredibly genius… Private Detective Scare is Storm Trojan
I’ve been following the ever-increasing Storm Worm phenomena since it’s arrival almost a year ago. I was originally impressed by the relative polish of its social engineering aspects. It has always seemed to me that all manner of phishing, social engineering, and general spam vectors have had some very obvious clues. It’s like the individual…