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Storm and the Future of Social Engineering

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the worming-around-under-my-skin dept.

Albert writes "Storm shows several key characteristics, some new and advanced. It uses cunning social engineering techniques — such as tying spam campaigns to a current event or site of interest — as well as a blend of email and the Web to spread. It is highly coordinated, yet decentralized — and with Storm using the latest generation of P2P technology, it cannot be disabled by simply 'cutting off its head.' In addition, Storm is self-propagating — once infected, computers send out massive amounts of Storm spam to keep recruiting new nodes."

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  1. How is this news? by Magada · · Score: 5, Informative

    The worm's been around for the better part of a year now and these features are in it from the beginning.

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    Something bad is coming when people are suddenly anxious to tell the truth.
  2. This is simply an advertisment by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is just a puff piece for IronPort - nothing to see here, move along

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    init 11 - for when you need that edge.