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Rubrik:Virenwarnung/Aktuelle Meldungen Central
Command: The Internet Worm/MyDoom.A is Accounting for 1 in 9 Email Messages
Globally Worm/MyDoom
Poised to Top Sobig.F, Quickly as Most Prevalent Internet Worm of All Time (31.01.04)
- Central Command announced that Worm/MyDoom is quickly gaining momentum and
is causing serious email congestion. This new aggressive Internet worm is
spreading globally with 1 out of every 9 emails being infected.
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"Many
corporations and home users are being bombarded with MyDoom infected
messages. This is by far the highest impacting worm of 2004," said
Steven Sundermeier, Vice President of Products and Services at Central
Command, Inc. "The extremely aggressive nature of this new worm, which
is less than 24 hours old, has demonstrated that the global email
infrastructure is still very vulnerable to such attacks." MyDoom
carries multiple malicious payloads including the ability to turn MyDoom
infected machines into transparent proxy's to launch other kinds of attacks.
The collaboration of spamming techniques with virus coding is prompting a new
era of virus writing. Additionally, the worm listens for commands on TCP/IP
port 3127 awaiting instructions. This virus epidemic could create a global
army of soldiers who are at the command of the virus author. Built into
MyDoom is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack again the SCO Group
Inc. (sco.com ) from February 1st until the 12th. Central Command's
"Emergency Virus Response Team" (EVRT) has automatically responded
to the Worm/MyDoom threat with a fast update to protect the global
"Vexira"Antivirus user base. (ma) Central
Command Contact:
Steven Sundermeier Tel.
(001- 330) 723 2062 x204, Fax
(001-330) 722 6517 E-Mail: ssundermeier@centralcommand.com |
