"The perpetrator of this virus is attacking SCO, but hurting many others at the same time," Darl McBride, president and chief executive of SCO, said in a statement. "We do not know the origins or reasons for this attack, although we have our suspicions. This is criminal activity and it must be stopped."
SCO is working with the U.S. Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation in investigating the virus.
While security companies rated Mydoom near, or at, the top of their rankings in severity, some disagreed as to the speed with which the virus was spreading.
Based on customer submissions of virus-infected e-mails, Symantec Corp., which ranked Mydoom a level 4, with 5 being the highest rating, placed the virus on par with BugBear, a mass-mailing worm that struck in 2002, but did not proliferate as fast as Sobig.F. As of mid-afternoon Tuesday, Symantec was receiving about 150 submissions of Mydoom-infected e-mails an hour, with about 9 percent from corporate customers.
"It hasn't tapered off, which is rather unusual," Alfred Huger, senior director of engineering at Symantec, said. "That means this virus hasn't reached saturation, yet."
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
