The Perfect Storm in Cyberspace… The “Storm Worm”

October 22nd, 2007 at 10:38am ibrahimo

Nobody is talking about it, I never heard about anything like this until now. I am talking about the “Storm Worm”. We all know worms, Sasser is a famous example, but these worms we know are simple and easily noticeable, simply because they were fastly spread.

Apparently this worm appeared in January and is spreading steadily since then, this worm affects machines that run windows, which means around 90% of the machines used in the world. It first appeared hidden in email attachments with the subject “230 dead as storm batters Europe”. The infected machines became part of a BotNet, no one knows how big is this BotNet but professionals estimate that it might be between a million and 50 million computers worldwide by now.

Yes, it is pretty scary, because until now this person or organization is not using this BotNet heavily or for anything big, which means they are waiting for the right time, maybe the right price who knows?!

To get the full picture and read dull details , please read this article written by John Naughton in “The Observer”.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2195730,00.html

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