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Re: "Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks" (slashdot)
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:48:33 -0400
and this $hit just had to happen during student registration and the return to class -JP<yee-freakin-haw> On 8/27/07, Paul Vixie <paul () vix com> wrote:
"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." http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1558245 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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Current thread:
- "Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks" (slashdot) Paul Vixie (Aug 27)
- Re: "Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks" (slashdot) Dude VanWinkle (Aug 27)