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Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the guess-who's-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seems like the Storm botnet that was behind the last two waves of attacks is also responsible for this new kind of social-engineering based attacks, using spam to try and convince users of the necessity of using Tor for there communications. They 'kindly' provide a link to download a trojaned version of Tor. This blog entry has a link to the original post on or-talk mailing list which has some samples of the messages."

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  1. Re:Are we late to the party? by VGPowerlord · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still not sure why people would actually listen to that. I mean... why would anyone just download a random program from a website without looking up said program in, say, google to see what it actually does?

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  2. Re:Ummm. by Colin+Smith · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seems a lot more advanced than most of the usual spam/bot/virus stuff I read about. You mean... More intelligently designed?

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  3. Unlikely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, if people would do crazy shit like that then we'd have botnets consisting of billions of computers... oh wait.

  4. Need editors who EDIT by The+Monster · · Score: 4, Funny
    Arguably, what is needed is the low-tech sort of spell-checker. Before we had automated computer programs, newspapers had people called 'copy editors' who would proofread the articles submitted by the reporters. They were looking not only for spelling, grammar, and usage problems, but they also would do fact-checking.

    Perhaps we could make the distinction clear this way: A machine that sells soft drinks is often referred to as a 'vender', while the guy selling hot dogs is more likely to be called a 'vendor'. With that in mind, I have toyed with a similar convention for other verb+er nouns:

    The person who checks spelling could be a spell-checkor, and the computer program would remain the spell-checker; the human surfing the Web would be a browsor, using a browser program. Programs such as vi or emacs would be editers....
    It's got as good a chance of adoption as *bibyte does.

    Now, if Cmdr Taco could just get editors who actually EDIT... Oh. He's the 'editor' who ran this story? Never mind.

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  5. Um... excuse you? by Linkiroth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your link didn't work.