ronjor
September 21st, 2007, 07:20 PM
{QUOTE-> Over the past few months, there has been talk about a wave of malware known commonly as “Storm”. “Storm” has been noted to be responsible for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, mass phishing emails, spam, botnets, and all sorts of online malicious activity.
While the name “Storm” was adopted by press, security companies had already adopted a myriad of names for the set of malware that encompasses this attack. Here at Microsoft, we refer to certain components as Win32/Nuwar and others as Win32/Tibs. Other names such as Zhelatin and shorter names associated with brief attacks have also been used, such as e-card or nfltracker. As I noted, there are many different components, each with its own specialized functionality, so over time, many names have been used. <-QUOTE}Microsoft Anti-Malware Engineering Team (http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware/archive/2007/09/20/storm-drain.aspx)
While the name “Storm” was adopted by press, security companies had already adopted a myriad of names for the set of malware that encompasses this attack. Here at Microsoft, we refer to certain components as Win32/Nuwar and others as Win32/Tibs. Other names such as Zhelatin and shorter names associated with brief attacks have also been used, such as e-card or nfltracker. As I noted, there are many different components, each with its own specialized functionality, so over time, many names have been used. <-QUOTE}Microsoft Anti-Malware Engineering Team (http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware/archive/2007/09/20/storm-drain.aspx)