Botnet researchers believe that the Storm botnet may be dead. It’s been a month since it last sent any spam, which is very unusual for a botnet. The only activity researchers have detected is that of some Storm-infected machines contacting one another and the host machines appear to be turning away any that try to connect to them. Since every minute of non-activity costs them money, it’s likely the massive botnet has been abandoned by its creators-possibly for another, more powerful one. Storm is made up of about 47,000 infected PCs.
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Posted October 14th, 2008 by Sue Walsh
