Re: CodeBlue finally hitting, or what?

From: Nick FitzGerald (nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 15:33:45 PDT

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    "Portnoy, Gary" <gportnoyat_private> wrote:
    
    > I am suddenly seeing hundreds of Unicode traversal requests coming in from
    > all over the world, many of them from previous CodeRed victims.  I am
    > guessing someone changed CodeBlue to make it spread faster, because before I
    > saw maybe 1 or 2 CodeBlue attempts a day, and so far i've seen at least 20
    > in the last hour.  Just a a way to help fingerprint it, a few of the
    > attempted exploits use the multiple decode vulnerability....
    
    It is, most likely, Nimda (the self-named "Concept Virus" but don't 
    use that name).  It "correctly" implements the mechanisms that 
    CodeBlue incorporated, and thus spreads.  I (and presumably all the 
    other dial-ups on my ISP) am currently being heavily scanned from 
    several sub-nets in the Philippines...
    
    
    -- 
    Nick FitzGerald
    Computer Virus Consulting Ltd.
    Ph/FAX: +64 3 3529854
    
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