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Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor

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. 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.