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2007

The Storm Worm. Bruce Schneier describes the Storm Worm, a fantastically advanced piece of malware that’s been spreading for nearly a year and is proving almost impossible to combat. Its effects are virtually invisible but infected machines are added to a multi-million machine botnet apparently controlled by anonymous Russian hackers.

# 6th October 2007, 12:25 am / malware, bruce-schneier, botnets, hackers, security, storm, worm

2004

Net security threats growing fast. 30,000+ PCs a day are being compromised for botnets.

# 20th September 2004, 6:44 pm / security, botnets