MS SQL worm attacks… one more reason not to use Windows
Published 5 years, 6 months ago in sysadmin
As seen on /., I received this email from my host this morning:
At approximately 11:28 pm on 1/24/2003, NOC engineers observed significant inbound and outbound traffic across all backbone carriers and internal router/switching infrastructure. Our emergency network response team was immediately deployed and began troubleshooting the problem. Upon the first notification to our carriers, we were informed of a global internet problem by a fast spreading SQL worm targeted at Microsoft SQL. As a result, the entire internet continues to suffer from an extreme decrease in service. Please see the following links for international coverage of the breaking story.
The Planet is working continuously detecting, locating, and removing all infected SQL servers from our network along with blocking all inbound traffic directed to the specific SQL ports under attack. As we continue to assist those customers affected, The Planet seeks to inform all customers of this global rising problem and to assure you that service is available to the maximum extent possible. Planet engineers are working with Microsoft and Cisco to apply all patches available along with all protective measures as they will be released in the next few hours/days/weeks. The Planet is dedicated to ensuring maximum uptime and all NOC staff and network engineers will remain onsite under Level 1 alert until all network connectivity returns to normal. We appreciate your patience in this matter.
If you have a Microsoft SQL product in our datacenters, please contact our NOC staff via Orbit ticket, email or phone for further assistance.
1.800.854.7679
Several Security companies have released the following information in reference to this problem.
Service pack 3 is available for SQL 2000 at the following.
Stand alone patch for SQL 2000
Another reason to not use Windows.
[Added Later]
More links:
Lawrence Lessig provides a chart from the Internet Traffic Report
I’m sure more have commented, but those are the RSS feeds I read.
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I noticed the slowdown and thought the problem was on my end… I checked my router logs and found a strange number of requests for ports 137 and 1434 (the latter being Ms’s MySQL server exploit). Now I know why.
Thank goodness I switched.