Storm Botnet sends spoofed YouTube spam - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 29th Aug 2007, 14:52

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/08..._botnet_spam/1

A hacker group named "Storm Botnet" has spammed the Internet with spoofed YouTube emails to create a bot network.

Darkangel · 29th Aug 2007, 15:04

*puts hand up*
Yeh ive got 4 or 5 of these. First time it nearly had me... untill i put the cursor over it and saw it wasnt the right link (like you do).
I'd like to think the rest of the online world would check the links sent in emails from people they dont recognise the email address of - but alas obviously not.

DarkLord7854 · 29th Aug 2007, 15:15

If people are that stupid/naive to open/click unknown links.. maybe they do deserve what they're getting.

Bogie · 29th Aug 2007, 15:37

Sounds like bad trouble. What malware were they trying to install? Irc bot?

Delphium · 29th Aug 2007, 15:46

I think it would be a great idea for ISP's to have some form of documentation which illustrates how to avoid spoofing, this would become of use to my gran who for the first time in her life is taking an interest into computers and the internet, having never even used a PC before, some form of documentation from the ISP, might increase the time between which I have to pop round to go fix everything, even if I have removed IE and replaced it with firefox, and installed antivirus and adaware, and set her account to non admin.
There are only so many steps one can take to prevent such nasties, documentation I feel would help that inexperienced user.

phuzz · 29th Aug 2007, 16:04

it's less

Quote:

A hacker group named "Storm Botnet"

more a botnet created by the Storm worm (which is presumably under the control of one group or individual).

I've not had any of these youtube spam yet, I feel left out

wafflesomd · 29th Aug 2007, 16:45

I received this email.

I'm smart enough not to open it.

sam.g.taylor · 29th Aug 2007, 17:16

Just checked my spam box and found one.

God, I love gmail's filtering

Confused Fishcake · 29th Aug 2007, 17:24

Yep, gmail stopped my 4 helpings

Really, people who fall for these tricks shouldn't be using computers.

Delphium · 29th Aug 2007, 17:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Confused Fishcake

Really, people who fall for these tricks shouldn't be using computers.

After my parents setting up a pc for my gran, I could not agree more!

Mr T · 29th Aug 2007, 19:35

I got my fair share of these too glad i hovered over the link before clicking

Darkangel · 31st Aug 2007, 00:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkLord7854

If people are that stupid/naive to open/click unknown links.. maybe they do deserve what they're getting.

yeh.. but sadly its the people who know nothing about computers who have to put things right

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29th Aug 2007, 15:04	#2
Darkangel Multimodder Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Yorks, UK Posts: 94	puts hand up Yeh ive got 4 or 5 of these. First time it nearly had me... untill i put the cursor over it and saw it wasnt the right link (like you do). I'd like to think the rest of the online world would check the links sent in emails from people they dont recognise the email address of - but alas obviously not.

29th Aug 2007, 15:37	#4
Bogie Banned Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 28	Sounds like bad trouble. What malware were they trying to install? Irc bot?

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