Is the Net heading for its 9/11?
The Storm botnet, or Storm worm botnet, is a massive network of computers linked by the Storm worm Trojan horse in a botnet, a group of “zombie” computers controlled remotely. It is estimated to run on anything between 1M and 50M computers and those who’ve put it together clearly have nefarious purposes in mind.
You can read more about it here.
In today’s “Observer” newspaper, John Naughton writes of 2008:
“we may finally discover what the Storm ‘botnet’ – the colossal network of compromised Windows machines someone has been covertly building over the past year – is for. My hunch is that the net is headed for its own version of 9/11. So enjoy it while it lasts. Happy New Year.”