What is Storm? - Security Term

The Storm Botnet is a distributed computer network consisting of computers remotely controlled without their owner's knowledge. Computers in the Storm Botnet are home and small office machines running the Microsoft Windows operating system which have been infected by the Storm worm. Storm got it's name as the worm was first spread though spam email with the subject "230 dead as storm batters Europe." Today, the Storm Botnet is considered to be the largest botnet in the world, with as many as 5 million computers under it's control. Efforts to combat Storm have been met with targeted resistance, suggesting that artificial intelligence and automated adaptive defense techniques are being utilized.