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."

Comments

Re:When your users are illiterate ...

[pimpimpim]

You misspelled "you're".

[tin_foil_hat=on] All this is just collateral damage of the great "dumbing the people down" scheme that is needed to get more votes and support for political parties and ideas that make no common sense.

As a side note, as a non-native speaker I have the feeling (based on very unscientific incidental data) that these spelling errors are more often made by native speakers than by foreigners. Maybe because as a foreigner you are thought to be more aware of the differences of these words (that holds for any language).

"there communications"?

[BarnabyWilde]

That's "their", you idiot.

Re:Who is behind the Storm Botnet?

[zeromorph]

Nice article. My main fear is, when the internet community won't do anything the governments will even more try to regulate, monitor and control the internet. And their solution won't be to disconnect all poorly patched MSWindows machines.

As bad as it is for tor, Estonia or individual sites, let this happen two three times and someone will start crying we have to monitor this, we have to outlaw that...

-my2cents

Oh and I hate this "Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe" -- hackers? Crackers or what ever! But that is probably really a lost cyber (discourse) war.