Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks 226
We've gotten a number of submissions about the new tricks the massive Storm botnet has been up to. Estimates of the size of this botnet range from 250K-1M to 5M-10M compromised machines. Reader cottagetrees notes a writeup at Exploit Prevention Labs on a new social engineering attack involving YouTube. The emails, which may be targeted at people who use private domain registrations, warn the recipient that their "face is all over 'net" on a YouTube video. The link is to a Storm-infected bot that attacks using the Q4Rollup exploit (a package of about a dozen encrypted exploits). And reader thefickler writes that the recent wave of "confirmation spam" is also due to Storm, as was the earlier, months-long "e-card from a friend" series of attack emails.
Skynet... (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ [emhsoft.com]
YKIMS!
Re:Thank you Microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ha! (Score:4, Funny)
You mean it is the evil linux haxors that deliberately sabotage poor Microsoft?
That is hilarious.
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Re:Thank you Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not sure which is worse: unpatched Windows machines, or Linux boxes without the critical patch that allows fanboys to type the word "you're."
Re:Ha! (Score:4, Funny)
That's because there is no elegant solution to social eng. attacks. The extent of human ignorance is obscene.
I bet if I sent out some random crap exe to a bunch of people, which when opened it would popup a box that said, "h4ck.exe would like to steal your credit card numbers, shit in your bed, and screw your girlfriend. Would you like to continue?" Ok, or cancel. And some people STILL would click ok.
Re:Thank you Microsoft (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I had a 500% increase in Spam on Tuesday Last W (Score:2, Funny)