HomeSystemVirus Removal - SpywareStorm was 'stronger' than the BlueGene supercomputer dozens

Storm was 'stronger' than the BlueGene supercomputer dozens of times

A researcher claims that the power of the Storm worm botnet has now overcome the power of IBM's most powerful Blue Gene supercomputer.

Matt Sergeant - director of anti-spam technology division of security firm MessageLabs - confirmed that in theory I can absolutely confirm that the power of processing botnets built with the Storm worm has now overcome. powerful processing of IBM Blue Gene supercomputers . '

' If a chess game is held between the Storm botnet system and the IBM Blue Gene supercomputer similar to the chess game between Blue Gene and the world chess champion, then surely Storm will win .'

Storm was 'stronger' than the BlueGene supercomputer dozens of times Picture 1 Responding to the Australian IT News, Sergeant said in terms of processing power, IBM Blue Gene is incomparable compared to the Storm botnet. Storm only needs to use up to 2 million abducted PCs to be able to achieve processing power equivalent to the processing power of the strongest supercomputer in the Top 500 global supercomputers. Storm is now suspected of successfully building a botnet system with more than 50 million abducted PCs.

It is hard to be able to provide detailed information comparing the power between the world's leading botnet and supercomputer because it is easy for no one to know for sure the number of PCs in the botnet as well as the processing power. management of each PC.

A botnet is a system of maliciously infected PCs located under the control of hackers, while PC owners are unaware. PCs like these are often called "kidnapped" or BOT computers. The BOT multi-link network is generally called BOTNET.

Security firms all said that in the past few months the infection rate of the Storm worm has increased dramatically. MessageLabs statistics show that within 24 hours Storm's clock could infect about 1.8 million PCs. Most of Storm's botnets are currently only used for spamming or denial of service attacks.

Hoang Dung

4 ★ | 1 Vote
stormpowerbotnetprocessing

You should read it

May be interested

  • P2P worms attack Skype usersPhoto of P2P worms attack Skype users
    the most popular voip service provider for skype users is being attacked by a new worm that spreads through the p2p chat feature of this internet phone software.
  • The internal virus spreads the fastest everPhoto of The internal virus spreads the fastest ever
    from the end of last week to the present, netizens using chat tools yahoo (im) fluttering before the arrival of a virus with the speed of infection is rated as the fastest ever and proved very good. dengoures.
  • Virus destroys data that is spreading in VietnamPhoto of Virus destroys data that is spreading in Vietnam
    on the afternoon of october 10, according to the network security center bkis, the virus destroyed w32.chir.b@mm data, which infested more than 3,000 computers since september. in recent days, this virus has caused damage to many businesses
  • Storm Deep uses YouTube to spreadPhoto of Storm Deep uses YouTube to spread
    youtube's 'invite friends to watch videos' feature recently has been used by spammers to spread spam with dangerous 'worm' implants.
  • Skype continues to be 'raided'Photo of Skype continues to be 'raided'
    within a month, skype was twice attacked by hackers using trojans, and the way they used it was a fake software called skype defender.
  • The number of newly emerging viruses reached a record numberPhoto of The number of newly emerging viruses reached a record number
    according to the bkis center, in october, the number of infected computers in vietnam reached a record number - 3,799,000. the number of new viruses that appeared in the month of 1,014 viruses is also a new record. the number of websites found to have a serious vulnerability of 38, has 22 websites

Virus Removal - Spyware