Spam Campaign May Mark Comeback for Storm, Waledac Operators - Security - News & Reviews - eWeek.com:
Interesting new worm out there. While the mass emails that told you go to some link had for the most part died down, they seem to be back again. This one has you download a fake Acrobat reader update to infect you. What gets to me is the staggering numbers it seems to be generating.
"'The overall volume is hard to estimate as it depends on many factors,' Tillmann Werner, malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, told eWEEK. 'We observed one successfully delivered mail per second on average—that means 3,600 spam mails per hour or 86,400 per day for each bot. The botnet is still very young and constantly growing. We counted about 2,500 different IP addresses that participate in the fast-flux service network which is used to hide the C&C [command and control] infrastructure. The total number of infected machines is probably magnitudes higher, but there is currently no way to measure it."What really gets to me is that these people could be real successful in a real job and yet they do this.
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