Storm Outbreak: Building A Bigger, Better Botnet
The new Storm worm outbreak that buffeted the Internet with malware-laden spam on Thursday slowed down early Friday morning.
The massive spam campaign died off in the early morning hours, according to Adam Swidler, a senior manager with Postini. The security company had reported the day before that the new Storm variant drove Thursday's virus level to 60 times the average. At the same time, the Internet Storm Center reported detecting at least 20,000 infections, while the Security Response Team at Symantec said they received several hundred thousand reports of the malicious e-mail making the rounds.
That all changed on Friday morning when the attack went quiet.
