"Witty" worm attacks BlackICE firewall

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"Witty" worm attacks BlackICE firewall

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At around 12:00 AM EST (05:00 UTC) on Saturday, we detected an upsurge in UDP traffic from source port 4000. This traffic is caused by a new worm ("Witty") which exploits a vulnerability in BlackIce's ICQ parser.


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