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Rootkit and botnet developers are fighting back. It seems that every advance made by security researchers is countered with new and more sophisticated malware. Just what are these new advances and what can the rest of us expect?

October 26th, 2008
By Michael Kassner

Last August in my article “Storm Worm: The Energizer Bunny of Botnets,” I mentioned that Storm was making a resurgence as the largest botnet creator in history. Yet for the past few months, Storm’s botnet has been eerily quiet. You may remember the e-mail spam message falsely announcing the start of “World War Three” back in July. That was the last major spam campaign propagated by Storm’s botnet.

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