Re: NIMDA - ceased ? -

["James C. Slora Jr." <Jim.Slora () phra com>]

Neil Dickey wrote Friday, December 27, 2002 12:25 PM


> Tomo <tomo () c-wind com> wrote asking:
>
> > Is NIMDA ...(GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32 ...something)
> > ceased ?
> > 04:54, Dec. 23 UTC is the last access of them, around here.
>
> No, not around here anyway.  My latest hit was this morning, the
> 27th.  I will say that traffic levels for this one are somewhat
> reduced from what they have been, and days may pass without any
> hits.
>
> My guess is that what we're seeing now isn't entirely the worm
> operating, but that the worm's exploit has been incorporated into
> various scripts.

I believe that Nimda and Code Red are usually dormant at the end of every
month anyway. They'll be back in a few days.

But I agree that many Nimda-like probes are probably script kiddies. If you
are talking about just the one particular hit that Tomo listed, most of my
query sources have been script kiddies rather than Nimda.

- Jim




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