Thursday, October 04, 2007

ESet: Storm Worm Traffic Analysis

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Pierre-Marc Bureau writes on the ESet Threat Blog:

The conspicuous spikes in traffic occurring when a node joins the Nuwar network and the subsequent control traffic appearing every hour will be quite noticeable to vigilant network administrators. The authors of this malware seem to have chosen reliability over network stealth.

The security industry needs to pay attention to the operational compromises attackers are making. These tradeoffs can point to design weakness which help us secure our infrastructure.

More here.

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