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'Storm Worm' Sweeps The Globe
News "Storm Worm", one of the larger Trojan horse attacks in recent years, is baiting people with timely information about a deadly, real-life storm front, security researchers said on Friday. Storm Worm carries the subject line "230 dead as storm...
[January 22, 2007, 7:32]
Storm Worm Resurfaces
News The Storm worm is undergoing a resurgence but, unlike the first variant, which had an executable file as an email attachment, the latest Trojan-horse attack is delivered over the web. Unsuspecting computer users are tricked into clicking on the...
[August 17, 2007, 12:30]
Storm Worm Variant Sneaks Into Blogs
News A variant of the Trojan horse attacks known as Storm Worm emerged Monday, targeting people who post blogs and notices to bulletin boards. Storm Worm emerged in January and raged across the globe in the form of emails with attachments that, when...
[February 28, 2007, 9:23]
Storm Worm Resurfaces, Tries Love Angle Again
News After a hiatus, the gang behind the Storm worm is attempting to exploit people's curiosity about a fictional love interest to tempt users into downloading the malware, according to security training organisation the Sans Institute.
[June 3, 2008, 11:42]
Storm Worm Anniversary Brings Fresh Variants
News The anniversary week of the first Storm worm attack has brought warnings of more Storm variants being sent out in spam. The original Storm worm code, so named because the first spam run coincided with a severe winter storm in Europe, will reach its...
[January 18, 2008, 16:13]
Symantec: Storm Worm Changes Tack
News The Storm worm has evolved again, researchers from Symantec claim. The sustained development of the Storm worm (incorporating review cycles) indicates that we will continue to see solid infection rates going forward," wrote Parsons.
[November 2, 2007, 16:53]
'Storm Worm' Slithers On
News The Trojan, named "Storm Worm" by antivirus vendor F-Secure, first started to spread on Friday as extreme storms engulfed Europe. Antivirus vendor Sophos called Storm Worm the "first big attack of 2007", with code being spammed out from hundreds of...
[January 22, 2007, 13:06]
Storm Worm: More Powerful Than Blue Gene?
News Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence. The Storm worm botnet has been estimated to control between one...
[September 12, 2007, 9:23]
Storm Worm Variant Using China Quake Emails
News The group has received reports of a new variant of the Storm worm that targets people interested in the 12 May earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people and left five million homeless. Previous versions have used April Fools' Day and Valentine's...
[June 20, 2008, 8:03]
Storm Worm Stirs Up Email Virus Chaos
News Postini said that two variations of the Storm worm virus, which originally spread across the internet in January, have quickly driven global virus levels 60 times higher than their daily average. According to warning notices from Postini as well as...
[April 16, 2007, 11:24]
Storm Worm Spammers Exploit Halo 3 Buzz
News Senior technology consultant for the company, Graham Cluley, said this case differs to the technique commonly associated with the Storm worm, which typically targets PCs for the job of sending spam. Spammers are exploiting YouTube's "invite your...
[October 10, 2007, 8:44]
Symantec: Evolved Storm Worm Attack Brewing
News Security vendor Symantec has warned that the Storm worm, the malware which contributes to the Storm botnet, is continuing to evolve and now has two further possible avenues of attack. In the past, the Storm worm authors would directly link to...
[May 6, 2008, 15:22]
Phishers Harness Storm Worm Botnet
News A number of phishing sites may now be using domains previously attributed to the Storm worm botnet, according to security company F-Secure. In October, SecureWorks security researcher Joe Stewart predicted that Storm botnet services could be sold...
[January 10, 2008, 16:55]
DoS Worm Invades Microsoft Servers
News Discovered this week, the worm -- dubbed DoS.Storm -- infects Microsoft Web servers and then scans for new machines to infect, floods Microsoft's main Web site with data, and sends a deluge of obscene email to an apparently invalid address for...
[June 11, 2001, 8:47]
Valentine's Day Brings Spam And Scams, Warns FBI
Blog No less an organ than the FBI has warned that Storm worm spammers are seeking to extend their network of compromised computers. It may not be from a secret admirer, but instead might contain the Storm Worm virus.
[February 14, 2008, 10:50]
Increase In Windows Attacks Reported
News The SANS Internet Storm Center, Symantec, McAfee and several other security companies are warning of a new worm that wriggles into Windows PCs by way of a security flaw for which Microsoft issued a patch with security bulletin MS06-040 on 8 August.
[September 1, 2006, 9:05]
Phishing Overtakes Viruses And Trojans
News This includes the recent Storm Worm and Warezov attacks, according to MessageLabs. With Storm Worm there are clear spikes, then drops down to normal levels. Phishing attacks have outstripped the number of emails infected with viruses and Trojans...
[January 30, 2007, 13:12]
Storm Botnet 'services' Could Be Sold
News The Storm botnet was initially created at the beginning of 2007 when the Storm worm was spammed out, hiding in email attachments with a subject line of "230 dead as storm batters Europe". The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet...
[October 16, 2007, 15:25]
'Blaster-type Event' Forecast For Summer
News While some news reports have theorised that a new worm is on the loose, the data traffic caused by the attacks has not risen to the level typically seen with worms, said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the Internet Storm Centre.
[April 29, 2004, 8:30]
MessageLabs: Watch Out For Audio And Video Spam
News The spam run of 15 million emails lasted 36 hours and used Storm worm-infected computers for the purposes of dissemination, MessageLabs said. Earlier this month, Sophos reported that spammers were exploiting YouTube's "invite your friends" function...
[October 30, 2007, 14:41]
