2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering

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Date:

01-06-2008
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Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
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617.9 KB
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16

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Estimates of the number of computers infected with Storm ranged widely, with some security researchers positing that up to 50 million computers had been infected. Cisco's IronPort Systems estimates that, at its most destructive point in July 2007, about 1.4 million computers were simultaneously infected and active - but that Storm continued to infect and re-infect around 900,000 computers per month. Storm has since shrunk in size for a variety of reasons, such as computers being disinfected or becoming dormant until needed again, and parts of the network being separated or switched to new, different botnets.

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2008 Internet Malware Trends: Storm and the Future of Social Engineering