web attacks?

[Dustin Decker]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Matt Luettgen wrote:

> anyone noticing massive hits on 1434 and 80? a few on 6667?  my logs are
> full and a lot of irc users are reporting the same thing

Yes - this is the Sapphire worm.  Pretty nasty for many - Code-Reddish.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43725-2003Jan25.html
http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Flash/AL20030125.html
D.

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