Tag: code red

Last week saw the 15th anniversary of the appearance of ‘Code Red’ (also known as ‘Bady’) – the first fileless worm, which spread by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft IIS, even penetrating Microsoft’s own IIS servers. Part of the worm’s payload was to launch denial of service attacks against a number of fixed IP addresses –…

Last week saw the 15th anniversary of the appearance of ‘Code Red’ (also known as ‘Bady’) – the first fileless worm, which spread by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft IIS, even penetrating Microsoft’s own IIS servers. Part of the worm’s payload was to launch denial of service attacks against a number of fixed IP addresses –…