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Storm botnet

The Storm botnet or Storm Worm botnet (also known as Dorf botnet and Ecard malware) was a remotely controlled network of "zombie" computers (or "botnet") that had been linked by the Storm Worm, a Trojan horse spread through e-mail spam. At its height in September 2007, the Storm botnet was running on anywhere from 1 million to 50 million computer…

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Author
Russian Business Network (speculated)
Aliases
Dorf, Ecard
Origin
Russia
Platforms
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP
Technical name
As Dorf Mal/Dorf-[Letter] (Sophos) Trojan.Win32.Dorf.[Letter] (v) (Sunbelt Software) · Mal/Dorf-[Letter] (Sophos) · Trojan.Win32.Dorf.[Letter] (v) (Sunbelt Software) · As Ecard Trojan:Win32/ECardViewer (Microsoft) · Trojan:Win32/ECardViewer (Microsoft)

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Encryption and sales

Claimed decline of the botnet

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Storm botnet

Nodes111
Edges110
Triples161
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018018
Components1

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Storm botnet

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related to Composition · 33
Storm botnet → According, Additionally, August, Back-end, Beyoncé Knowles, Cumulatively, DNS, Efforts, Estimates, Foo Fighters, If, In, It, It's, Kelly, Kelly Clarkson, Lawrence Baldwin, Matt Sergeant, MessageLabs, Microsoft Windows
related to Method · 29
Storm botnet → According, Artists Against, At, Corman, DDoS, DDoS-ed, Every, Gigabits, IBM, If, In, Internet, IP, It, Jeff Chan, Joshua Corman, Other, Over, Researchers, SecureWorks
related to Origins · 29
Storm botnet → According, Adobe Systems, American, Chinese, Cringely, Daniel Tynan, Europe, First, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Internet, It, January, Kaspersky Lab, Later, Leo Kuvayev, Microsoft, Moscow-based, Other, Patrick Runald, Robert
related to Claimed decline of the botnet · 21
Storm botnet → As, Brandon Enright, California, Enright, Enright's, However, If, Internet, July, Microsoft, MSRT, October, On September, San Diego, Storm, The, Tool, UC San Diego, University, Windows
related to Encryption and sales · 19
Storm botnet → Around October, Computer, Graham Cluley, However, Internet, It, Its, MP3, October, On, Security, Sophos, Storm, Storm's, Storm-related, The, This, Unlike, Within
Technical name · 5
Storm botnet → As Dorf Mal/Dorf-[Letter] (Sophos) Trojan.Win32.Dorf.[Letter] (v) (Sunbelt Software), As Ecard Trojan:Win32/ECardViewer (Microsoft), Mal/Dorf-[Letter] (Sophos), Trojan.Win32.Dorf.[Letter] (v) (Sunbelt Software), Trojan:Win32/ECardViewer (Microsoft)
related to Present state of the botnet · 3
Storm botnet → One, Stormfucker, The Storm
Aliases · 1
Storm botnet → Dorf, Ecard
Author · 1
Storm botnet → Russian Business Network (speculated)
Origin · 1
Storm botnet → Russia

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storm botnet security spam 2007 computer systems e-mail malware worm also microsoft network computers infected internet may new virus software

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Storm botnetAliasesDorf, Ecard1.00infobox
Storm botnetAuthorRussian Business Network (speculated)1.00infobox
Storm botnetOriginRussia1.00infobox
Storm botnetPlatformsWindows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP1.00infobox
Storm botnetTechnical nameAs Dorf Mal/Dorf-[Letter] (Sophos) Trojan.Win32.Dorf.[Letter] (v) (Sunbelt Software)1.00infobox
Storm botnetTechnical nameMal/Dorf-[Letter] (Sophos)1.00infobox
Storm botnetTechnical nameTrojan.Win32.Dorf.[Letter] (v) (Sunbelt Software)1.00infobox
Storm botnetTechnical nameAs Ecard Trojan:Win32/ECardViewer (Microsoft)1.00infobox
Storm botnetTechnical nameTrojan:Win32/ECardViewer (Microsoft)1.00infobox
Beyoncé Knowlesinstance offrom artists0.80text
Kelly Clarksoninstance offrom artists0.80text
Rihannainstance offrom artists0.80text

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