Notice anything strange on the interweb recently? Unable to reach one of your favorite sites? The Associated Press reports on an internet attack which began early this morning:
The virus-like attack, which began about 12:30 a.m. EST, sought out vulnerable computers on the Internet to infect using a known flaw in popular database software from Microsoft Corp., called “SQL Server 2000.” But the attacking software was scanning for victim computers so randomly and so aggressively — sending out thousands of probes a second — that it saturated many Internet data pipelines.
Slashdot also has a more technical post about the worm:
Since about midnight EST almost every host on the internet has been receiving a 376 byte UDP payload on port ms-sql-m (1434) from a random infected server… …This is the cause of major connectivity problems being experienced worldwide.
You can also view graphs of the outage, updated on the hour.
Krishen’s Spin:
I’m happy I can still reach my blog! 🙂