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Online Casino Players Use Caution

Surmising that online casino users are fairly Web savvy is a pretty safe assumption because internet gambling players have a registered email address and have the basic skills to search online and find appropriate gambling Web sites. For that reason all online casinos players, and anyone using the internet for that matter should be warned that a new malicious email threat is effecting millions of internet users and is the largest scale botnet attack in years.

Basically the “Storm worm” is using an e-mail based attack to lure internet users (that includes online casino players) to malicious sites that then register the player’s computer as a part of the vast criminal botnet network. Industry analyst and software security firms are reporting the highest levels of these spam e-mails that has been seen in years. The spam e-mails usually contain greeting card attachments, or contain links to breaking news. These emails are NOT valid, and if a player follows through with the link and download they may not even be aware the Storm Worm has affected their computer.

The email botnet attack is serious because of the sheer number of computers that are already registered with the criminal botnet (at last count 1.7 million) and the ongoing threat that those computers put countries and companies around the world. If the botnet network is used for more than simply spamming, researchers are fearing that the bots are being set up to launch denial-of-service attacks in the near future. Says Joe Stewart, a researcher at SecureWorks, "It's really gotten enormous. It's been building with exponential growth. It's one of the largest botnets I've ever heard of."

This warning is not for merely the online casino players who may be affected by the spam e-mails but the warning goes out to any internet user who uses email to communicate and may potentially open one of the Storm Worm emails.