AIM bot creates “fight combos” to spread
Online attackers have created an instant-messaging bot program that chains together a number of executable files, similar to the combination moves in fight games, depending on the attacker’s need. The software, dubbed the AIM Pipeline worm, uses modular executable files to infect machines with different functionality but also to make the bot network’s growth more robust: if a Web site hosting one of the components gets shutdown, the other pieces of the worm can still spread. Full Story