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 .'

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.

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