A Storm before the calm?
It’s not often that you get what looks like good news on the malware front. Reading the blogs of some of the people who track it - such as F-Secure, Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software, and the Greynets blog - you could think that we’re All Doomed, because the folks writing malware know that they’re incredibly hard to track down, that there are people willing to pay them to write it, and that while human stupidity might not be infinite, it’s a suitably large number that you don’t have to worry too hard.
And so we’ve had the Storm worm, which -1 set a lot of people in the security world on edge, with a number of reports suggesting that the number of infected Windows PCs is anywhere between 1m and 50m, operating in a silent peer-to-peer network which nobody outside can crack, and whose future nefarious purposes - beyond spewing pump-and-dump spam - we can still only guess at. A Storm before the calm? | Technology | Guardian Unlimited