The so-called “Slapper” worm that is infecting Web servers worldwide is milestone in the evolution of computer worms, experts say: the creation of a peer-to-peer network by a worm for the purpose of ...

A Linux worm that started spreading a week ago has reached a plateau after infecting about 7,000 servers and turning the hosts into a peer-to-peer network that could be used to attack other computers.

Slapper (Linux.Slapper.a) is a worm that attacks Linux servers running Apache with mod_ssl and uses a known vulnerability in the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) handshake process. According to F-Secure, an ...