NEWS: about the MyDoom's attack of Google
The VP of Operations of Google - Urs Hoelzle - blogged yesterday about the MyDoom attack which impacts Google a bit.
Interesting effect and good preparation of the search engines' ops responsibles!
[From Internet Storm Center]
The latest version of MyDoom, which started arriving in people's mail boxes in force Monday morning, uses search engines to find more recipients for its message.
Like other viruses, MyDoom-O will search the infected system for valid e-mail addresses. However, MyDoom-O uses a new twist to find additional e-mail addresses. It will search four different search engines (Altavista, Google, Lycos, Yahoo) for additional e-mail addresses within the domain of e-mail addresses found locally (e.g. if it finds someone@example.com, it will search for additional addresses that end in @example.com).
Google and Lycos experienced significant problems as a result of the large number of queries caused by MyDoom infected systems. However, there is no evidence that this DDOS effect' was the purpose of the virus.
Interesting effect and good preparation of the search engines' ops responsibles!
[From Internet Storm Center]
The latest version of MyDoom, which started arriving in people's mail boxes in force Monday morning, uses search engines to find more recipients for its message.
Like other viruses, MyDoom-O will search the infected system for valid e-mail addresses. However, MyDoom-O uses a new twist to find additional e-mail addresses. It will search four different search engines (Altavista, Google, Lycos, Yahoo) for additional e-mail addresses within the domain of e-mail addresses found locally (e.g. if it finds someone@example.com, it will search for additional addresses that end in @example.com).
Google and Lycos experienced significant problems as a result of the large number of queries caused by MyDoom infected systems. However, there is no evidence that this DDOS effect' was the purpose of the virus.
