Storm Worm Escalates

Dallas Computer Repair reports that Storm Worm has escalated to new heights within the last week. The worm erupted with over 200,000,000 emails sent out in just over a week that directed users to malicious websites where little content was offered but contained a downloader that put the malicious software onto the unsuspecting users computers. The goal of these malware authors is to create a large botnet that can also download fresh malicious software where the authors will control the computers to their advantage.

Last Thursday was the biggest day with between 24,000,000 and 26,000,000 malicious emails sent compared to this last Tuesday where security experts predicted between 4-6 million malicious emails where Storm Worm constitutes 99% of the malicious software.