Four years later, SQL Slammer worm still squirms

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Over the past two days, SQL Slammer was listed as the number one threat on Arbor Network?s new ATLAS (Active Threat Level Analysis System), accounting for a whopping 25 percent of all malicious Internet activity detected by Arbor?s censors. The bulk of the Slammer attacks are coming from infected hosts in China.

Unless anyone wants to make the case that SQL Slammer has been actively spreading onto new machines, these statistics pretty much confirm what I've believed for a while now: malware is getting hyped, mostly by the media and the ABMers, far beyond what it is actually harming. Go to any anti-virus company's threat center and the top 10 is nothing more than a list of very low profiled, socially engineered mass-mailing worms. While there are obviously still vulnerabilities out there, the bad guys have figured out that socially engineered worms can't be patched and simply changing the title of the email makes it a whole new attack (a fact that you must keep in mind when the likes of Apple maliciously spread FUD about 140,000 Windows viruses).

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