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----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Gadi Evron <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: router worms and International Infrastructure Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:18:43 +0200 > > Subnetwork specific worms? I only want to take down as1 > > , as2 and as3, for example, rather than a large-scale > > 'internet killer' outage. > > Almost a year ago we had a crisis in Israel where > something caused ONLY Israeli ISP clients to stop being > able to use their DSL connections, and on the SAME DAY. > > We believe it was a targeted worm. > > Who said this can't happen? It already did. The biggest > impact was the help desks being DDoS'd. Do you mean to imply that it was a router code worm or a normal worm? A "Warhol Worm" in a logically localized area (an AS or three) utilizing router exploitations would be spectacularly fast. scott
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