Despite the article at computerword.com April 22, 2008 reporting that Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) had made Storm pretty insignificant, the botnets appear to be preparing for another attack, which may target around Mother’s Day.
According to UploadMalware.com’s Malware Blog, one of their researchers has found indications of a new storm worm variant moving in.
At the time of this posting we have not had any reports of spam from the botnet using the 3 domains that were found in the research, but the files are definitely there and the domains are fast fluxing as per the normal method.
This does not diminish the impact that Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) has made on disinfecting users machines, less infected PCs means less infection gets spread around.
Storm however, is not done yet.
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