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[News] [Rival] The 'One Pump-and-dump Per Windows PC' Project

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] The 'One Pump-and-dump Per Windows PC' Project
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:19:57 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Storm Worm sent 15 million pump-and-dump e-mails last month

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| Storm is thought to have landed on as many as 15 million PCs over the past 
| year, but recently its network of infected PCs has been shrinking.  
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=811587142&rid=-50


Related:

The end of Windows, or a security expert gives up

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| And then go and warn others to do the same. Windows is defeated - its days 
| are over. It carries the worm inside. So whatever will happen next:
| RIP, Windows.  
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http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=456


Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/


Gathering 'Storm' Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets

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| Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a 
| Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful 
| example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between 
| 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide.   
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/10/securitymatters_1004


Security expert: Storm botnet 'services' could be sold

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| "This effectively allows the Storm author to segment the Storm botnet into 
| smaller networks," Stewart wrote in his blog post. "This could be a precursor 
| to selling Storm to other spammers, as an end-to-end spam botnet system, 
| complete with fast-flux DNS and hosting capabilities. If that's the case, we 
| might see a lot more of Storm in the future."    
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6213781.html

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