Via F-Secure Blog -
One year ago — Janurary 18th/19th depending on your timezone — a spam run began that resulted in the moniker of "Storm" being given to a family of related malware.
Today, the Storm botnet is one of the more troublesome threats in existence.
How did it get the name? One year ago Dan and Jusu shot some video of our WorldMap Live in action. We uploaded that video to our newly created YouTube Channel and were quite surprised by the number of views that followed.
The "Storm Video" now has 880000+ views.
With that kind of mass attention, the name kind of stuck.
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Wish I had that many honeypots / detection nodes at my fingertips....
Actually, there are a couple of equally valid reasons why Storm got the name it did.
ReplyDeleteThe most accepted reasoning is because one of the first social-engineering baiting schemes used to entice unwitting victims to click on links that would eventually lead to getting them compromised were e-mails with the subject line "230 Dead as Storm Batters Europe".
See also:
http://blog.trendmicro.com/chasing-storm-into-2008/
- ferg