Five Internet Service Providers have been recruited by the government to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch DDoS attacks from Australia.
In just eight months the Storm worm has infected more than 20 million computers and built a zombie army -- or botnet -- capable of launching DDoS attacks that could be used against any organisation or even damage critical infrastructure, according to security experts.
This worm will scan for open NetBIOS ports across local networks or over the Internet, looking for Windows/Systems folders to infect.
Internet sensor networks such as the SANS Internet Storm Center rely on their own invisibilty to be effective, but researchers now say it is possible to map their locations
Several hundred Sun Solaris sites in Australia have been attacked by a self-propagating worm called Sadmine/IIS, which infects Microsoft IIS Web servers, replacing the Web page with an anti-American slogan.
These worms will crash vulnerable Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines.
The first Internet worm appeared 16 years ago and online security has never been the same, say security professionals.
Australian businesses are being warned to install patches and signature files to protect against a worm variant which has surfaced in the US and Europe.
A new worm that attacks Linux Web servers compromises more than 3,500 machines, creating a rogue peer-to-peer network that has been used to flood other computers with data.
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