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Storm, Nugache Lead Dangerous New Botnet Barrage

Dennis Fisher writes on SearchSecurity.com:

In early 2006, Dave Dittrich, a senior security engineer and researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, got a sample of a new strain of malware from a colleague, and began monitoring its activity. The Trojan was a bit lazy at first, making just a few outbound connections.

But it quickly became obvious that this was no ordinary piece of malware, because each of the connections was to a peer and not a central command and control server.

posted by Fergie @ 12/19/2007 12:46:00 PM