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    HEADS UP - New Welchia worm based on RPC2

    At approximately 4:42PM EST, I began tracking massive infections on my network. All of my triggers pointed to the W32.Welchia worm however this seems to be a new variant that the AV companies aren't aware of as of yet. Seems that boxes patched with the latest RPC patch are not affected.

    My external triggers and internal triggers are going insane. Looks like this is traveling across the internet very quickly. So far, the only footprints are port 707 TCP is open on infected hosts and my IDS is showing propigation source and destination as TCP 0 (which we know isnt happening).

    Keep your eyes open folks. This should be a fun evening.

    EDIT: 5:05 EST - Nachia IDS triggers are also going off on this one. This is gonna be ugly!
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    checking my firewall logs and IDS logs right now as we speak, but so far nothing has been triggered that looks like what you are seeing.

    If I find anything in my logs I'll be sure to add it here. Thanks for the heads up.

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    checked my firewall for any of those attacks, haven't seen any yet, but i will keep my eyes peeled, thanks for the heads up.

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    Checked our stuff and things are quiet so far... 5:10 CST.

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    All clear on the central front. 5:40cst
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    At about the time thehorse13 mentions (calculating for PST) we were hit with about 30 minutes of hack attempts. Not on those ports. The source system was in Denver and I've already contacted the abuse@ISP for it.

    Odd. This has been a very strange Monday.

    Just updated my AV files from Symantec, nothing mentioned that matches what was described above.

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    thanks horse..

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    My boss posted this to bugtraq and I posted this here and to ntbugtraq. So far one other person has the same issue.
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    this along with the new ssh vuln will make for an interesting week
    chown -r us ./bases

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    thanks

    TH13, thanks for the warning.
    I've already talked to my company's security officer, and we are gonna send out an alert on this. We have had 4 offices that had Welchia outbreaks, and I know some were before MS03-039 came out.

    If you and your boss get the credit as being the first ones to notify about this, any idea what you would call the worm?

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