A Linux worm that started spreading a week ago has reached a plateau after infecting about 7,000 servers and turning the hosts into a peer-to-peer network that could be used to attack other computers.
Slapper (Linux.Slapper.a) is a worm that attacks Linux servers running Apache with mod_ssl and uses a known vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) handshake process. According to F-Secure, an ...
The Slapper worm identified late last week is slowly but surely infecting thousands of vulnerable Linux Apache Web servers across the Internet, according to security firms monitoring its progress.
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