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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 334 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: the storm worms family tree comments Discuss  
New research suggests that the infamous Storm worm has its roots in a computer worm that first surfaced as early as 2004, two-and-a-half years prior to Storm's widely-recognized birthday. The findings come from security researchers at Damballa, a start-up in Atlanta that monitors activity from botnets, large groupings of hacked, remotely-controlled computers that criminals use for spamming and other online illegal activity. According to the researchers, Storm was born from the ashes of the "Bobax...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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