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Storm Worm Rising

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the goggles-do-nothing dept.

The Storm worm has been an increasing problem in the last few months, but a change in tactics may mean something big is going to happen. The article discusses a bit of back story about the worm, including the somewhat frightening numbers about the millions of spam emails carrying the worm payload. They estimate between a quarter and a million infected systems usable for spam or DDOS attacks.

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  1. Re:My fp worm by jujuchef · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow dude(ette) parent! You've been branded Troll! You have to be like in the top 5 posts these days on /. to get that title! Consider yourself adorned!

    It brings a sniff (a sniff?) to my eye when like, 1 in 5 were branded Trolls like the parasitic technophiles we are.

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