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Storm Worm Virus
2008-02-14 00:38:00 Storm Worm - Worst Virus Attack The Storm worm authors are waging a multi-pronged attack and generating the largest virus attack some researchers say they’ve seen in 2 years. “We are basically in the midst of an incredibly large attack,”...
By: ByREV Blog-u
Storm worm se aprovecha del día de San Valentín? enviando millones de corre
2008-02-13 20:00:00 Al igual que los ataques detectados en las navidades, Storm worm se pone en forma, pero esta vez con el día de San Valentín? enviando millones de correos spam. Los usuarios reciben un email, en la que contiene un enlace a una web, donde supuestamente pueden descargarse tarjetas para San Valentín, pero en realidad, al visitar ...
FBI Alert: St. Valentine?s Day E-Card Carries Storm Worm Virus
2008-02-13 05:25:00 From FBI Release If you unexpectedly receive a Valentine?s Day e-card, be careful. It may not be from a secret admirer, but instead might contain the Storm Worm virus. With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious software (malware). The e-mail directs the recipient to click on a link ...
Watch out for Valentine's day Storm Worm
2008-02-12 16:41:00 Every holiday there are many new and innovative ways that hackers get malware out there. The bggest one going now is to click a link to get a e-card. Once you click the url, the malware is then loaded onto...
By: Stix Blog
IBM dice que el ?Storm Worm? hace millones de dólares al día
2008-02-11 11:32:00 La persona que está detrás del tan famoso Storm Worm genera millones de dolares al día, según Joshua Corman, de los Sistemas de Seguridad en Internet de IBM. Storm Worm que ya tiene casi un año de vida, ha sido un tremendo éxito financiero ya que se está utilizando para realizar ataques de spam muy rentables. Además ...
Storm Worm Bearing Rootkit Gifts
2007-12-28 14:59:00 The holiday has dragged Storm worm back out for some more “smashy, smashy”. If you receive an email like the one above which arrived in our media email this morning do not click on it. That might seem self evident to some but, this malware continues to spread for a reason. A couple of the ...
Google?s Blogger Plagued By Storm Worm
2007-12-28 01:25:00 Hundreds of blogs on the Bloggers service have been found to contain links to servers that will infect visitors with the notorious Storm worm. read more
Storm Worm hackers use scantily clad divas in Santa attire to lure victims!
2007-12-25 21:36:00 In case you feel lonely today — or are looking at things that your wife or girlfriend might not approve of while they prepare dinner — here is a warning from Dancho Danchev about a site that might leave your computer with a disease. The site invites a person to watch a bunch of scantily clad ...
Symantec: Storm worm changes course
2007-11-03 00:00:00 The Storm worm has evolved again, researchers from Symantec claim. To streamline the worm and make it more stable, the malware authors have shed key functionalities in the malicious code, said the researchers.
By: Malware Help Org
Storm Worm Sent 15 Million Pump-And-Dump E-Mails Last Month
2007-11-02 09:37:00 PCWorld 30/10/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.com The Storm Worm botnet network may be shrinking in size, but it has managed to send out 15 million annoying audio spam messages in October, according to antispam vendor, MessageLabs. It's hard to believe that the Storm messages were effective. Recipients had to first click on an attachment-- usually given a misleading name like beatles.mp3 or Britney.mp3-- to hear the stock pitch, which featured a warbly robotic woman advising people to invest in online car seller, Exit Only. This kind of scam, called "pump-and-dump", tries to nudge up the price of penny stocks by a cent or two, giving the spammers a way to make a quick buck by selling the stock before it crashes. Spammers have been delivering their messages in different formats, including.pdf and Excel files, over the past few years as part of a cat-and-mouse game with spam blockers. This...
Storm worm pulls Halloween Trick, which is no treat.
2007-11-01 14:06:00 It wouldn’t be Halloween without the zombie-creating Storm malware up to some mischief. The latest Storm-backed spam campaign invites e-mail recipients to visit a Halloween-themed Web site where they can download a dancing skeleton. What gets downloaded instead is a version of the Storm malware that turns unsuspecting users’ PCs into members of the world’s largest botnet. Members of these botnets are also known as zombies. Read the latest WhitePaper - State of Internet Security Report on Protecting Enterprise Systems According to security vendor Marshal, the e-mail’s embedded link is not to a URL but to an IP address. Users who click o...
Storm Worm Botnet Lobotomizing AntiVirus Programs
2007-10-27 00:00:00 The ever mutating, ever stealthy Storm worm botnet is adding yet another trick to its vast repertoire: Instead of killing antivirus products on target systems, it's now doing a hot fix with a memory patch to render them brain dead. The strategy means that users won't be alarmed by their antivirus software not running.
By: Malware Help Org
Fun Comments on Storm Worm
2007-10-13 06:13:00 Anton Chuvakin on Security – These here and also these. This quote related to Storm worm sophistication was a major wow for me: Now we have some serious architects involved. This is in line with the great successes of computer science: Unix, the Internet, Skype all achieved this level of sophistication in engineering, with real results. I tried with … read more
Just How Bad Is the Storm Worm?
2007-10-08 00:00:00 The Storm worm has earned its share of superlatives, but security experts disagree over just how many computers running Microsoft Windows have been compromised by the email worm. Some new figures released from Microsoft and estimates obtained by Security Fix may help shed some light on the size and sheer firepower of what's being called one of the largest and most sophisticated cyber fraud networks ever constructed.
By: Malware Help Org
Storm Worm Chronology
2007-09-30 00:00:00 The notorious "Storm Worm" series of spam attacks is interesting for several reasons. One, of course, is its simplicity as a social engineering attack. The lures are presented as very short, simple emails, enticing the victim to click the links proferred, and run the downloaded file.
By: Malware Help Org
Blogger fights back against the storm worm
2007-09-05 17:17:00 Â Â Since Blogger has been kind enough to host this blog for about two years now, I thought I should do a post about the recent reports concerning malware and Blogger. Blogger itself, wasn’t compromised, but a lot of bloggers individual blogs were. Most people are compromised by malware after clicking on a link they shouldn’t have. This was posted on Blogger Buzz: You may have seen stories in the news recently about malware on Blogger, such has this one from the BBC or this one from Committee to Protect Bloggers. Blogger was not compromised. Instead, the blog posts are from bloggers whose machines were compromised by a Trojan horse. These bloggers had their mail2blogger email addresses in their computers’ address books (a perfectly legitimate use case), so when the malicious software spammed every address in their address book with its content, a copy of that email was posted to their blog. We are in the process of notifying impacted bloggers and recommending that...
Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers
2007-09-03 00:00:00 The network of compromised Microsoft Windows computers under the thumb of the criminals who control the Storm Worm has grown so huge that it now has more raw distributed computing power than all of the world's top supercomputers, security experts say.
By: Malware Help Org
Worm Alert: Storm Worm Take 2? Massive attacks is this the same worm from 2
2007-07-25 19:34:00 We first saw the Storm Worm back in 2001 and here is Symantecs description on it:W32.Storm.WormRisk Level 1: Very LowDiscovered: June 6, 2001Updated: February 13, 2007 11:46:08 AMAlso Known As: DoS.Storm.WormType: WormSUMMARYW32.Storm.Worm is a worm that seeks out Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) systems that have not applied the proper security patches. Any such systems that it finds are then infected with the worm. The payload of this worm performs a denial-of-service attack on http:/ /www.microsoft.comThreat AssessmentWild * Wild Level: Low * Number of Infections: 0 - 49 * Number of Sites: 0 - 2 * Geographical Distribution: Low * Threat Containment: Easy * Removal: EasyDamage * Damage Level: MediumDistribution * Distribution Level: MediumTECHNICAL DETAILSWhen this worm is run, it sets up a server FTP thread and starts to scan 10,000,000 IP addresses in an attempt to find a vulnerable system at one of the targeted addresses. The vulnerable systems that...
By: Ask The Admin
Encontrada nueva variante del gusano ?Storm Worm?
2007-04-16 20:09:00 US-CERT está informado de una nueva variante del gusano de Storm Worm, que utiliza la igenería social en el correo. Esta variante del gusano Storm Worm llega como adjunto en el email y también se propaga a través de de la red. Al hacer click en el fichero ejecutable en el email se instala ...
Storm Worm refuses to die
2007-03-07 06:36:01 Phishing threats remained at the top of the danger list of reported malware in February, Fortinet has reported. The security firm warned that the most notorious threat remains the Tibs worm, otherwise known as Storm Worm, accounting for 3.91 per cent of all detections.
By: Malware Help Org
Storm Worm Attacking Blogs, Bulletin Boards, And Webmail
2007-03-02 06:33:01 A variant of the well known and troublesome Storm worm is being used in a spam attack that is luring blog, bulletin board, and Webmail (Internet based email) users to connect to a malicious Web site, according to Dmitri Alperovitch, a principal research scientist at Secure Computing Corp.
By: Malware Help Org
Storm Worm haciendo de las suyas
2007-01-30 00:12:01 El nuevo virus que usa el temporal que afecta a Europa ya está afectando a miles de ordenadores en el viejo continente. El virus, ha sido enviado a una gran cantidad de direcciones de Internet, y lleva el titulo “230 dead as storm batters Europe” (230 muertos mientras una tormenta azota Europa). “Lo que es excepcional es la naturaleza temporal del ataque”, dijo el jefe de investigación de F-Secure, Mikko Hypponen. El experto agregó que la mayoría de los usuarios no notarían el gusano, o troyano, que crea una puerta trasera en el ordenador que puede ser explotada posteriormente para robar datos o usar el ordenador para enviar spam. A tener mucho cuidado. Fuente: Reuters
Storm Worm haciendo de las suyas
2007-01-20 02:00:00 El nuevo virus que usa el temporal que afecta a Europa ya está afectando a miles de ordenadores en el viejo continente. El virus, ha sido enviado a una gran cantidad de direcciones de Internet, y lleva el titulo "230 dead as storm batters Europe" (230 muertos mientras una tormenta azota Europa)."Lo que es excepcional es la naturaleza temporal del ataque", dijo el jefe de investigación de F-Secure, Mikko Hypponen.El experto agregó que la mayorÃa de los usuarios no notarÃan el gusano, o troyano, que crea una puerta trasera en el ordenador que puede ser explotada posteriormente para robar datos o usar el ordenador para enviar spam. A tener mucho cuidado.Fuente: Reuters |
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