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It is a sound practice to configure an antivirus softwareвЂ™s settings to automatically update so as novel malware is added to the catalogue, you are at pace with the threats out in the wild.

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Looking through todayвЂ™s lens, the rules for how to rid a computer of Storm are the same as for any known virus: download antivirus software, scan for known viruses, and follow the instructions to remove it. As Storm C2 was embedded into and distributed among nodes, once a node was shut down it was easily replaced by another, another and so on. At the time, law enforcement and others who directed resources toward stopping the worm had a difficult time shutting it down.

Credit goes to Microsoft and security vendors who developed countermeasures such as detection and removal tools for end-users. What was believed to be the worldвЂ™s largest botnet was a for-hire hosting product on the illicit market.Дata as recent as 2016 shows Storm infections to be a few thousands, and not the 1 million or more during the late summer of 2007. Tactics such as IP targeting were useless against the decentralized structure and nodes. Storm also acted as a for-rent spam server from which it could host illicit websites or from which untraceable DDoS attacks could be leveraged on any target, since the botnet traffic was decentralized. These sites and those of security vendors that target spam and malware were inundated with tons of senseless requests, shutting them down. In return, Storm launched DDoS attacks on websites such as, ,, , and. Cybercriminals and others with an axe to grind against anti-spam websites and security vendors compensated StormвЂ™s creators to have their adversariesвЂ™ information inserted into Storm.

Their motive was profit, with usage of the Storm worm acting like a penny stock. The group went or still go by the name Zhelatin Gang aka Storm Gang, or the known cybercrime organization Russian Business Network. Researchers have concluded that a Russian hacker group in St.

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When a user whose browser was up to date with the latest security patch was brought to a site with Storm infected links, the following would occur: Storm links were inactive but the page also displayed links such as вЂњclick to download software to view your ecardвЂќ -В a tactic that is very challenging for IT teams to keep up with. The DDoS attack also manifested in the posting of blog-comment spam, luring readers into clicking infected links in threads. Subject lines were artful: вЂњdude this is not even on MTV yetвЂќ, вЂњawesome new videoвЂќ, вЂњCool Video is outвЂќ and so forth. As Storm-infected machines began to take instructions from their C2 counterparts of the P2P network, they began sending emails containing YouTube invites invoking top global celebrity names and ecards from loved ones, all with Storm-infected download links. The cunning methods, though, had just begun. The Friday, Janulaunch of Storm was days after Cyclone Kyrill had formed over Newfoundland and just as it was beginning to ravage the European continent, eventually killing 57 people.

вЂњ230 dead as storm batters Europe.вЂќ This was the subject line of the first SPAM email that Storm sent, enticing people to open it and click an attachment that contained its payload.

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