Happy New Year; Now try to keep up
Well, the term "get with the program" is being taken seriously by hackers out there if the botnet mentioned here in "Storm botnet drops strippers, switches to New Year's greeting" is any indicator. Apparently this Storm botnet is changing by the minute, with hundreds (by the time you read this, likely thousands) of variants already available for your enjoyment. Be on the lookout for inbox messages purporting to be holiday greetings. These savvy guys are using a very effective strategy, where the true location of servers being used are hidden "behind" legitimate (but compromised) machines that act as a sort of surrogate. What started just a few days ago with spam featuring Christmas strippers has already evolved into spam that gets users to infect their own systems by leading them to Uhavepostcard.com to download not a cheery postcard, but instead the Storm Trojan. Looks like 2008 will have us on our toes once again....
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