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Hacked GOP Website Infects Visitors With Notorious Bot-Making Malware

Gregg Keizer writes on ComputerWorld:

A Republican Party Web site has been hacked, and for some time it has been spreading a variation of the long-running Storm Trojan horse to vulnerable visitors, a security researcher said today.

This is the first time that Storm has taken to the Web for its victims, said Dan Hubbard, head of research at San Diego-based Websense Inc. "The big news is that Storm has added infecting sites to its arsenal," said Hubbard.

Storm debuted in January but only cracked the top malware lists early this summer, and has become infamous for its ability to adapt its infection strategies.

posted by Fergie @ 9/14/2007 01:40:00 PM