[69012] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UDP port 4000 traffic: likely a new worm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bakos)
Sun Mar 21 23:47:39 2004
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:46:48 -0500
From: George Bakos <gbakos@ists.dartmouth.edu>
To: Josh Richards <jrichard@digitalwest.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040320215030.GA29618@homer.digitalwest.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
The number of immediately vulnerable hosts was rapidly depleted by the
worm, given the launch was AFTER most business had shut down for the
weekend. I'll venture that Black Ice, a commercial security product, is
deployed much more widely on the corporate laptop than the home machine.
I expect to see more than a slight bump in those numbers come Monday AM.
g
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:50:30 -0800
Josh Richards <jrichard@digitalwest.net> wrote:
> The good news is that "witty" appears to not be a very witty propagator.
> Our flow data shows attempts to connect to 4000/udp on hosts in our
> network having a downward trend over the last few hours:
>
> Time Unique Source IPs
> 08:00 350
> 09:00 332
> 10:00 297
> 11:00 298
> 12:00 265
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