Storm Botnet set for holiday attacks say researchers

main.uab.edu — ?One of the primary ways machines became infected was by users clicking on e-mails that were often associated with holidays, including Valentine's Day, Labor Day, Fourth of July and others. Over the Christmas holiday, the creators of the "Storm Worm" sent e-mails with dozens of Christmas and New Year's-related greeting messages. Dec 26, 2007 View in Crawl 4