Virus Like attack Hit Web Internet Traffic
Strange kind of worm attack has taken place last Saturday which have affected internet traffic in different parts of the world. This is believed to be fast spreading malicious code which is attacking major servers resulting in huge fall of internet web traffic. This computer worm is interfering with email delivery and web browsers. Huge fall of internet traffic been noticed this Saturday which is very similar to attack occurred in summer 2001 by virus known as “code red”. This attack is not targeted for home computers or personal computers, but major servers who are responsible for directing traffic for internet.
Internet services in South Korea were put on halt national wide for hours on Saturday due to the attack, countries like Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, India and Philippines were also affected by it and experienced lower internet traffic due to worm attack.
This malicious code is designed to exploit vulnerability in database software SQL server by Microsoft. The code is programmed to get server into unlimited loop which is sending data to other computers continuously hence results in denial of service attack. This worm is programmed to design to work in the memory therefore anti viruses may not be able to detect it. The size of this malicious code is about 376 bytes only which affected the web significantly on Saturday at about 530 GMT.
United States had almost equal affect of this Worm attack although it is not yet sure if the impact is same as it is on South Korea. It is the first time that wired and mobile internet been collectively affected because of this attack in South Korea. Its impact on government organization, financial institution were relatively normal as the attack had occurred on weekend.
Internet services in South Korea were put on halt national wide for hours on Saturday due to the attack, countries like Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, India and Philippines were also affected by it and experienced lower internet traffic due to worm attack.
This malicious code is designed to exploit vulnerability in database software SQL server by Microsoft. The code is programmed to get server into unlimited loop which is sending data to other computers continuously hence results in denial of service attack. This worm is programmed to design to work in the memory therefore anti viruses may not be able to detect it. The size of this malicious code is about 376 bytes only which affected the web significantly on Saturday at about 530 GMT.
United States had almost equal affect of this Worm attack although it is not yet sure if the impact is same as it is on South Korea. It is the first time that wired and mobile internet been collectively affected because of this attack in South Korea. Its impact on government organization, financial institution were relatively normal as the attack had occurred on weekend.
Several data pipelines seem to have affected due to attack of malicious code. Code has taken over its affect very quickly due to the use of protocol called UDP, which is different from the computers to access web pages.It is believed that 5 out of 13 major Internet hub were targeted on Saturday attack, Microsoft website has enhance their security checks for any kind further attacks, other companies can download the parch for security vulnerability.
Do not worry, this is not latest news :P i just wrote it for the people who never knew it had happened. It happened on 25 January, 2003,
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