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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' 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 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 body of the email contains a link to an IP-address based website, which is actually one of the many compromised PCs in the...
[January 18, 2008, 16:13]
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]
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 Spammers Exploit Halo 3 Buzz
News Spammers are exploiting YouTube's "invite your friends" facility to send spam containing a Storm Trojan from the video-sharing site. Anstis said clicking on the link to "winhalo3" leads to a file containing a Storm Trojan.
[October 10, 2007, 8:44]
Storm Botnet 'services' Could Be Sold
News The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet unknown, could be preparing to sell off the "services" of segments of the network, according to Joe Stewart, a researcher from managed security services company SecureWorks.
[October 16, 2007, 15:25]
'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: 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]
Internet Storm Center: Threat Update
White Papers This webcast discusses threats observed by the Internet Storm Center, and discusses new software vulnerabilities or system exposures that were disclosed. The webcast reviews: Email fraud detection and prevention, anatomy of a phishing scheme and...
[November 23, 2004, 23:00]
Weathering The Cyber Storm
News In fact, during last week's Cyber Storm exercise, we tested and worked through communications paths and processes for responding to significant malicious cyberactivity. You mentioned the Cyber Storm exercise you had last week.
[February 21, 2006, 14:35]
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. On further investigation, server domains hosting the pages turned out to be compromised domains previously...
[January 10, 2008, 16:55]
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. A number of nascent Storm hosting domains using fast-flux...
[May 6, 2008, 15:22]
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]
OS X Update Brews Java Storm
Talkback Storm in a teacup more like. This problem - which I had on my powerbook - is solved by downloading a 16MB security update which would have been installed on most affected machines already (i.e.not something new) it just needs to be reinstalled and...
[April 20, 2005, 10:11]
The Eye Of Oracle's Security Storm
News David Litchfield, managing director of UK security software firm Next-Generation Security Software, found himself in the eye of a media storm after he pointed out some security flaws in Oracle's core database software at the Black Hat Security...
[August 4, 2004, 14:55]
Botnet More Dangerous Than Storm?
Blog Reports are starting to circulate of a botnet being seeded that could be more insidious than Storm, currently the largest and most sophisticated network of compromised computers. I heard whispers of a possible botnet to rival Storm last week, but a...
[February 8, 2008, 9:26]
Orange Caraibe: Telecom Provider's Business Continuity Solution From Sun Weathers Any Storm
White Papers With a Sun StorEdge SAN, Orange Caraibe has a business continuity environment to keep systems running even during the fiercest storm. Orange Caraibe is the largest telecommunications provider in the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique...
[November 15, 2004, 23:00]
Calm During The Storm: Hurricane Charley No Match For The GEMMS ONE System
White Papers Hurricane Charley, the most powerful storm to soak the Fort Myers, Florida area in 44 years snapped utility poles, demolished buildings, flooded roads and caused billions of dollars in damage when it came ashore in September 2004 with 145-m.p.h...
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
OS X Update Brews Java Storm
Talkback My system is not affected either. Could it be the ZD Net (i.e. MS FUD) machine is in high gear? Check out the article on Tiger and 'Longhorn' that actually says things like 'Mac is an iPod peripheral' and 'Apple might have copied MS on that...
[April 19, 2005, 16:09]
