Damballa Inc. an internet security company based in Georgia - specialized in BotArmies recently discovered a worldwide mega infection of botnets and had given it a name “Kraken“. Botnets are large networks of computers being command and controlled like a zombie. The name was probably derived from which Kraken(a legendary sea monster) is seen infecting more than 400,000 computers more than the current Storm Worm of 200,000 computers.
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Thanks to Abhor Network and Sunbelt for for alerting us about the new Storm activity. The picture of a Joker holding out an April Fool message is trying to lure users into downloading a Storm worm. The link to the Storm website arrives in your mailbox with all sorts of April Fool’s subject headers. Once at the malicious website, it will try to download either a file with name foolsday.exe, funny.exe or kickme.exe. As of now, majority of anti-virus software may not have the signature for this variant - take necessary precaution.
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Be on high alert if you have receive a Valentine e-mail or card this coming February as the Storm worm might hit soon.
Latest update: Storm worm are already on the released according to Sophos on its blog. Take note of infected file name withlove.exe or e-mail title ‘Falling In Love with You’ and ‘You’re the One’.
