{"id":11,"date":"2003-02-06T05:10:29","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-02-06T05:10:29","modified_gmt":"2003-02-05T22:10:29","slug":"how-fast-ms-sql-virus-slammer-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/how-fast-ms-sql-virus-slammer-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"How fast Ms SQL virus Slammer spread?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slammer started to spread on january 25 05:30 UTC.<br \/>\nMore than 75,000 hosts were infected. It&#8217;s the first time that a virus caused network outages, canceled airline flights, interference with elections, and ATM failures.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is a geographic spread of Sapphire in the 30 minutes after release:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/images\/uploads\/sapphire-2f-30m-2003-01-25.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"540\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nBy comparison, it was two orders  magnitude faster than the Code Red worm, which infected over 359,000 hosts on July 19th, 2001.<br \/>\nThe idea of the Sapphire worm was not only to cause damage to ms sql serves but rather overload networks and then taking Ms SQL servers out of operation.<br \/>\nFacts:<br \/>\n -Sapphire reached its peak scanning rate of over 55 million scans per second across the Internet in under 3 minutes.<br \/>\n -90 percent of the entire Internet scanned in a little more than 10 minutes.<br \/>\n -74,856 IP addresses infected.<br \/>\n -US$1.2 billion in lost productivity in its first five days worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Picture provided by[url=http:\/\/www.caida.org] Caida[\/url]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sapphire Worm is the fastest computer worm in history, it doubled in size every 8.5 seconds. More than 90 percent of vulnerable hosts were infected in 10 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}