Long Term Implications of the Slammer Worm
news alert (excerpt)
London, UK - 26 January 2003, 15:30 GMT - The Slammer Worm which disrupted
the Internet across the world and particularly South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan
and China over the weekend is a timely reminder of the strengths and weaknesses
of the digitally connected environment:
1. Slammer may appear to be very benign in comparison to more virulent malware
in the longer term. Slammer is an extremely small piece of test code and it
appears to have been designed as a delivery vector that would not cause any
direct damage during the early stage. Its main purpose appears to have been
to gauge the speed at which such a carrier could spread in the wild. The next
step for the perpetrators would be to create a version that does not clog
bandwidth and goes largely undetected. Following this stage, a future refined
version may be used for carrying a more destructive payload, which would exploit
other vulnerabilities and could cause massive economic disruption. mi2g
examined the possible emergence of such a graduated system of malware deployment
in its news alert of 13th January 2003. [Bugbear points to future of Viruses,
Worms, Trojans & Malware]
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