Sasser Worm Update by Patricia Schoepke, Webmaster, Bankers Information Network
CNN Reports:
"It's still going steady. It will be a big problem for a day or two, then it will linger on the Internet for weeks, and likely years," said Finnish data security firm F-Secure. Among its victims are banks, travel-booking systems, European Commission offices and Britain's 19 Coastguard stations. In just three days, four variants have emerged, each capable of causing machines that run on Microsoft's Windows operating systems XP, NT and 2000 to reboot without warning and knocking out some computer reservation systems. Victims include Goldman Sachs, Australia's Westpac Bank and Finnish financial company Sampo. It has also hit about 300,000 computers at Germany's Deutsche Post.
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InfraGard - reporting in The Australian:
Sasser does not travel by e-mail or attachments and spreads itself to any unprotected computer linked to the internet. While it slows
down computers, it is not believed to cause long-term damage to the hard drive. Internet security company Trend Micro on Monday, May 3, upgraded Sasser to a "red alert" -- its highest warning level. Westpac confirmed Monday it was investigating network problems caused by Sasser. Branches had switched to pen and paper manual systems to allow them to keep trading, but the bank's ATM and internet banking networks were not hit.
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Agence France-Presse Sampo, Finland's third largest bank, closed its 130 branch offices across the
country on Monday, May 3, to prevent the Sasser Internet worm from infecting
its systems. The Sasser bug has so far contaminated millions of computers worldwide, making them shut down and restart in an endless
loop. Source
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