[Linux-Anyway] Re: New worm variant -- for those who don't know yet
- From: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Linux-Anyway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:01:04 +0200
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:11:28 -0700 (PDT), Meph Istopheles <Meph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
squashed this out of the keyboard:
> thestar.com.my
> Monday, September 23, 2002
>
> Slapper worm smarting less
> By Robert Lemos
>
> A Linux worm that started spreading a week ago has reached a
> plateau after infecting about 7,000 servers and turning the hosts
> into a peer-to-peer network that could be used to attack other
> computers.
The ironic thing about Slapper is that it creates a file called .bugtraq.c
and uses gcc on the host to compile it to an application called .bugtraq!!
Now, that's sneaky!
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