This large scale attack, caused by the MyDoom computer virus that is estimated to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world, is now overwhelming the Internet to requests www.sco.com," Jeff Carlon, SCO's director of...
Hypponen said the behaviour of the latest Bagle worm is suspiciously similar to that of the original MyDoom worm, which so successfully launched a DDoS attack on the SCO.com website. Although the Netsky worm has caused misery for users, it is not...
Called a network telescope, the method of analysing internet traffic suggests that the worm and its variants have compromised about 500,000 computers in three days, but estimates range from 200,000 to one million systems.
In January, the source code of MyDoom started spreading a few days after Microsoft and the SCO Group put up a combined $500,000 reward for catching the virus's author. The author of Bagle worm has started distributing two new variants and the mass...
Although the software giant has placed quarter-million-dollar bounties on the heads of those responsible for the MSBlast worm, the Sobig virus and the MyDoom virus, no arrests have yet been made in those cases.
Last year, the creators of Bagle, MyDoom and NetSky appeared to be in competition to gain control of large numbers of PCs for use in botnets. The dozen or so worms and variants all exploit a security hole in the plug-and-play feature in the Windows...
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