Slammer worm slithers back online to attack ancient SQL servers
One of the world's most famous net menaces, SQL Slammer, has resumed attacking servers some 13 years after it set records by infecting 75,000 servers in 10 minutes, researchers say.
The in-memory worm exploits an ancient flaw in Microsoft SQL server and Desktop Engine triggering denial of service, and at the time of its emergence significantly choking internet traffic.
Researcher Michael Bacarella first raised the alarm to Slammer which was created on the back of public proof-of-concept exploit code published during Black Hat by now Google security boffin David Litchfield. Check Point researchers detected re-emergent attacks in early December, noting that most targeted machines in the US.
