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Code Red: A New Threat


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04/15/2004



Since the death of Chinese fighter pilot Wang W ei, U.S. websites have been under an increased threat of attack from Chinese hackers. In early May, numerous U.S. Government and Corporate websites were defaced in retaliation for the pilot’s death. The U.S. Geological Survey, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Department of Labor are just a few of the sites that have been defaced in this apparent cyberwar. Most of these sites were defaced with messages denouncing the U.S. Government and have been linked to hacker groups within China. Additionally, federal investigators have linked the Lion Worm to China. This worm propagates by attacking the BIND DNS service on vulnerable servers and sending the systems password files to an E-mail address in China.

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