[NCLUG] Code Rainbow: New attack, MUCH nastier...

[Sean Reifschneider]

Starting at around 7am mountain time this morning (you know, exactly a week
from last Tuesday at 9am eastern time) a new Code-Red-like worm has started
pounding the heck out of the network.  It's interesting to note that there
wasn't really a ramp-up time, at 7:20am or so mountain time we just
suddenly started getting pounded on at around 40KB/sec.  New, around 2.5
hours later it's up to 60KB/sec.

They're calling it "Code Rainbow":

   http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170225.html