[pchelpers] News:Yet another Windows worm builds yet another massive criminal botnet, global threat

Wed, Dec 03, 2008 - 01:12 PM EST
"The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft patched with
an emergency fix in late October is being used to build a new botnet, a
security researcher said on Monday," Gregg Keizer reports for
Computerworld.

"Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro Inc., said
that the worm, which his company has dubbed 'Downad.a' -- it's called
'Conficker.a' by Microsoft and 'Downadup' by Symantec Corp. -- is a key
component in a new botnet that criminals are creating," Keizer reports.
"'We think 500,000 is a ball park figure,' said Macalintal when asked
the size of the new botnet. 'That's not as large as some, such as [the]
Kraken [botnet], or Storm earlier, but it's still starting to grow.'"

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