Saw this article on MSN a short time ago:
http://tinyurl.com/2t3xl
“Government and industry experts warned late Thursday of a mysterious, large-scale Internet attack against thousands of popular Web sites. The virus-like infection tries to implant hacker software onto the computers of all Web site visitors.
” Industry experts and the Homeland Security Department were studying the infection to determine how it spreads across Web sites and find adequate defenses against it.
”Users should be aware that any Web site, even those that may be trusted by the user, may be affected by this activity and thus contain potentially malicious code,” the government warned in one Internet alert.
“The mysterious infection appeared to target at least one recent version of software by Microsoft Corp. to operate Web sites, called its Internet Information Server, popular among businesses and organizations.”
(story by the Associated Press)
The SANS Internet Storm Center was talking about this today also:
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-06-24
I’m concerned. Sure, the MSN article does sound a little exaggerated, but there could be something to this. Maybe??? I’ve checked my IIS web servers, and there OK. I’m gonna keep an eye on them over the night (it’s almost 10PM CST Thursday night right now).
Anyway, I hope this comes out to be nothing…..
