Warfare.(Backpage Briefing)(Brief Article)

WARFARE: The flood of Net worms pillaging the Internet in recent months appears to be the product of the first major global "cyber war" between rival virus writing groups.

Steven Sundermeier, VP of products and services at Central Command, says the three groups responsible for MyDoom, Bagle and Netsky are battling for control of vast dispersed armies of Internet-linked computers. They're also targeting each other. Three Netsky variants are designed to disable the Bagle and MyDoom worms, prompting the MyDoom group to release MyDoom.G, which is immune to Netsky. Meanwhile, text extracted from the code of all three worms contains insults directed at rival groups.

Of course, warns Sundermeier, all of this could be a trick. "What might appear as a malicious cat-and-mouse game between virus writing groups may actually be a well-organized cover-up to disguise their true intentions."