Central Command reports this morning that MyDoom is "quickly gaining momentum" and causing serious email congestion around the world. "This new aggressive internet worm is spreading globally with 1 out of every 9 emails being infected," the company says.
Steven Sundermeier, Vice President of Products and Services at Central Command, adds: "The extremely aggressive nature of this new worm, which is less than 24 hours old, has demonstrated that the global email infrastructure is still very vulnerable to such attacks."
The company also notes that MyDoom has the capability to do a lot of stuff - including the ability to turn MyDoom infected machines into proxies to launch other kinds of attacks. "The collaboration of spamming techniques with virus coding is prompting a new era of virus writing," it adds.
