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Storm Worm Botnet Threatens National Security?

Liam Tung writes on ZDNet Australia:

In just eight months the Storm worm has infected more than 20 million computers and built a zombie army -- or botnet -- capable of launching DDoS attacks that could be used against any organisation or even damage critical infrastructure, according to security experts.

The Storm worm was first seen in January of this year. Initially the worm spread as an executable file attached to an e-mail disguised as an electronic greeting card. However, Storm has constantly changed its tactics and was recently caught fooling victims into clicking on links that lead them to an infected file.

posted by Fergie @ 8/19/2007 11:24:00 PM