This is very very bad

richlevy · 11-02-2007, 06:28 PM

From here.

So not only has someone created a botnet with the processing power of a supercomputer, but it may have a built-in defense mechanism. Why does this sound like a doomsday sci-fi movie?

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Researchers Fear Reprisals From Storm

Massive botnet can launch denial-of-service attacks on those who threaten it

OCTOBER 29, 2007 | 4:10 PM
By Tim Wilson
Site Editor, Dark Reading
A warning to those who might try to stop the Storm worm: Be prepared for a counterattack.
Researchers say they have heard of several instances in which Storm -- the infamous botnet created by a widespread worm/Trojan distributed across the Internet -- has successfully launched reprisals against those who try to break it.
"This is the first time that I can remember ever seeing researchers who were actually afraid of an investigating an exploit," said Josh Corman, principal security strategist at IBM's Internet Security Systems unit, in an interview last week at Interop New York.
"The bad news about Storm is that it fights back," said Shane Coursen, senior technical consultant at Kaspersky Lab, during a session at the conference. "There have been cases in which a researcher was discovered, and within five seconds, he had a DDOS attack from 10,000 bots."
It's not clear whether Storm's reprisals are automated or manual, says Joe Stewart, a researcher at SecureWorks who has been studying Storm since it first emerged at the beginning of this year. "They could be triggered by behavior that's typical of a researcher, or they could be the result of someone studying logs and launching an attack in response," he says.

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Corman said that Storm's potential as a launching pad for DDOS attacks is enormous. "It hasn't been used that way yet, but the potential is there," he said. "If they wanted to take out a different financial institution every week, they could do it." Corman believes that estimates showing Storm at 50 million nodes are wildly inaccurate, but he believes that the botnet may be as big as 9 million nodes. (See Storm Worm Botnet Attacks Anti-Spam Firms.)

toranokaze · 11-08-2007, 04:11 PM

It is alive
Alive I tell you

Crimson Ghost · 11-08-2007, 09:40 PM

Nuke it from space.
It's the only way to be sure...

TheMercenary · 11-09-2007, 09:24 AM

Sounds serious. The Chinese Government probably made it.

toranokaze · 11-09-2007, 02:54 PM

I don't know about Chinese but it sound state sponsored.

Flint · 11-09-2007, 04:18 PM

State-sponsored, "sentient lifeform," "created in the sea of information" ...sounds like the puppet master (Project 2501).

toranokaze · 11-15-2007, 05:31 PM

Or skynet

11-08-2007, 04:11 PM	#2
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	It is alive Alive I tell you __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

11-08-2007, 09:40 PM	#3
Crimson Ghost Larger than life and twice as ugly. Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,264	Nuke it from space. It's the only way to be sure... __________________ We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years

11-09-2007, 09:24 AM	#4
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Sounds serious. The Chinese Government probably made it. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

11-09-2007, 02:54 PM	#5
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	I don't know about Chinese but it sound state sponsored. __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

11-09-2007, 04:18 PM	#6
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	State-sponsored, "sentient lifeform," "created in the sea of information" ...sounds like the puppet master (Project 2501). __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

11-15-2007, 05:31 PM	#7
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	Or skynet __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

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