End Of The Storm Botnet?

At Dark Reading, they're reporting that the infamous Storm botnet may have been abandoned:

"It’s been nearly a month now since the Storm botnet sent its last spam run -- significantly long enough that botnet researchers now conclude this could be the end of most infamous botnet once and for all.
Such prolonged inactivity is unusual for a botnet, they say, which may indicate that Storm’s operators have abandoned it. The only signs of life have been some remaining Storm-infected machines checking in with one another. One group of researchers has seen some Storm hosts return “go away, we’re not home” replies when contacted.

The botnet began a gradual decline in size after Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool began detecting and cleaning it up late last year."

Well, good. The worm, which peaked around the start of this year seems to have been laid low by its own fame. Future security threats will be different.

Posted by Joe Caponi at 02:28 PM, October 16, 2008

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