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From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

A 'Storm' Is Brewing At YouTube

Wednesday August 29, 2007
Playing off of the epidemic popularity of the video clip site YouTube, creators of the "Storm" worm have altered their tactics for the latest Storm variants. Storm is now spreading masquerading as an invitation to click on a link to a YouTube clip. Hovering over the link reveals the true destination, an obscure IP address rather than YouTube. For more details about this latest incarnation of the Storm Trojan / worm, read this Computerworld.com article.

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