Storm Worm Virus

A group of European hackers calling themselves the Zhelatin gang have released a new virus across the world titled the “Storm Worm”. Computer analysts have estimated a total of 10 million computers that could already be infected. The Zhelatin were said to use every trick in the book on this one. They changed the code in several ways creating many different forms of the virus. Their means of spreading the virus was through e-mail spams, posts on blogs and forums, and also embedding links to their virus on youtube and other popular video streaming websites. With as many computers that were estimate to be infected, there are a lot of worries about if an attack such as this concentrated as a DDoS attack; it would have crippled much of the web.