FBI Warns of New Worm, Says No Code Red Suspects Yet
The FBI has not yet issued any warrants for the arrest of individuals suspected of authoring the ORIGINAL Code Red Worm, a spokesperson for the agency's National Infrastructure Protection Center said today. They did not issue an official comment regarding suspects in one of the Code Red mutant cases.
Separately, the FBI today issued a caution to operators of systems based on the Unix operating system. According to the agency, a new worm dubbed "X.C." has been targeting a vulnerability in the telnet daemon that ships with Sun's Solaris, IBM's AIX, and several versions of Linux....
Chad Dougherty, an incident analyst with the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), told Newsbytes that the security information clearinghouse has received several reports from Unix system administrators of programs and other "artifacts" left behind by what CERT believes may be a new worm exploiting the telnet vulnerability.
Dougherty said the information on the new worm is still being collected and CERT has not yet assigned it a name or released an advisory about the code.
The FBI would not confirm whether it was investigating a satirical anarchist group in Canada that appears to be taking credit for Code Red I. According to an announcement at the Web site of the Deconstructionist Institute for Surreal Topology (DIST), the group warned that it would launch a "massive internet attack" on http://www.whitehouse.gov July 20.
