Storm, Nugache lead dangerous new botnet barrage

Brandon Enright bmenrigh at ucsd.edu
Mon Dec 31 21:02:24 EST 2007


On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:06:44 -0800 or thereabouts "' =JeffH '"
<Jeff.Hodges at KingsMountain.com> wrote:

> Storm, Nugache lead dangerous new botnet barrage
> By Dennis Fisher, Executive Editor
> 19 Dec 2007 | SearchSecurity.com
> <http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1286808
> ,00.html?track=NL-358&ad=614777&asrc=EM_NLN_2785475&uid=1408222>
>   
...snip...

Storm made a pretty significant comeback this week:

http://noh.ucsd.edu/~bmenrigh/stormdrain/stormdrain.enctotal_encactive.html

Note that those graphs are *only* from the peers that speak encrypted
Overnet.  If you include all the legacy Storm bots out there that still
speak the unencrypted variant Storm is getting back up to its heyday
size.

Brandon

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