According to Dambala researchers speaking at the RSA 2008 conference, a new bigger-and-better-than-Storm called Kraken has over 400,000.- machines under its control.
Only 20% of AV products can detect it, and it appears to be very polymorphic and uses obfuscation. The delivery / infection mechanism is a "picture" file with a .exe extension which is not shown.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1
With the constant increase in malware code out there, how long before current AV mechanisms break?
dD
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