Virus writers get Slapper happy
News Internet vandals have continued to modify the recent Slapper worm and have sent at least four new variants of the hostile Linux program into the electronic wilds. The newest variant, dubbed "Mighty," exploits the same Linux Web server flaw that...
[October 7, 2002, 7:44]
Slapper worm takes on new forms
News Several virus vendors reported variants of the original Slapper.worm.A, called Slapper.worm.B, or "Cinik", and Slapper.worm.C, or "Unlock", appearing this week. F-Secure said that this was probably due to system administrators simply having too...
[September 25, 2002, 14:58]
The Year Ahead: The future of viruses
News A 11 September-themed virus was found, though it did not make headlines, and shortly afterwards the destructive Slapper and Bugbear worms hit the Internet. The Linux-based Slapper worm included an innovation that is likely to reappear in a more...
[December 31, 2002, 6:33]
Slapper worm grinds to a halt
News Still, Slapper did take a big evolutionary step by creating a peer-to-peer network. Known as Linux.Slapper.Worm, Slapper and Apache/mod_ssl, the worm's spread has fallen far short of the biggest attackers in recent times.
[September 20, 2002, 13:32]
F-Secure gives Linux an antivirus injection
News The best known Linux virus was called Slapper, which two years ago infected vulnerable versions of the Apache Web server running on Linux and made them launch DDoS attacks. F-Secure Anti-Virus for Samba Servers detects, cleans, removes, and...
[March 25, 2004, 15:50]
Linux worm creating P2P attack network
News The advisory includes an analysis of the so-called Linux.Slapper.Worm's code, revealing some details of the attack network created from servers compromised by the worm. Slapper) also includes a number of peer-to-peer capabilities, which allow it to...
[September 16, 2002, 8:09]
Virus writers exchange coded insults
News Mydoom.G, which was released on the same day, also contained a message to Netsky's author: "to netsky's creator(s): imho, skynet is a decentralized peer-to-peer neural network.we have seen P2P in Slapper in Sinit only.they may be called skynets...
[March 3, 2004, 12:30]
Seven simple ways to stop security scares
News The Slapper worm is causing problems on Apache servers, dispelling the fug of invulnerability open source has with some people, and after five months in the wild the Klez email attack is still hale and healthy.
[September 26, 2002, 13:14]
Millions vulnerable to Microsoft Web flaw
News Recent research has shown that, in the case of the Linux Slapper worm, only about 40 percent of administrators patched their systems in the 7 weeks before the Slapper worm was released into the Internet.
[November 21, 2002, 7:53]
