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InfoWorld reports that two new variants of the Slapper worm have appeared

"The latest variants of the original Slapper.A worm use different UDP ports to communicate with other infected servers, and have different names from the original worm. While Slapper.A uses the name "bugtraq" and relies on UDP port 2002, Slapper.B is called "cinik" and uses port 1978 while Slapper.C is named "unlock" and uses port 4156, according to an advisory published by F-Secure."

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