New Storm Campaign: Amero
The Storm Worm botnet changed the propagation theme again and now uses a social engineering theme that builds on the weak US dollar and the ongoing financial crisis:
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From a technical point, nothing seems to change compared to previous versions of the binary. In the last few days, our crawler measured an effective size (i.e., how many bots are online at the moment) of the botnet between six and ten thousand machines. In total, the botnet is still bigger, we observe high churn rates between different crawls.
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The U.S. Government began to realize the plan to replace the Dollar with the "Amero", the new currency of the North American Currency Union. Canada, the United States of America and Mexico have resolved to unit in order to resist the Worldwide Financial Crysis. You can become acquainted with the plan of the implementation of Amero, just click on the icon under this text.
From a technical point, nothing seems to change compared to previous versions of the binary. In the last few days, our crawler measured an effective size (i.e., how many bots are online at the moment) of the botnet between six and ten thousand machines. In total, the botnet is still bigger, we observe high churn rates between different crawls.
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