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Morris Worm

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

A worm program written by Robert T. Morris, Jr. that flooded the ARPANET in November, 1988, causing problems for thousands of hosts.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat90%rule-basedr:entity.threat.attack.v1
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Morris Worms
possessive
Morris Worm's
pluralpossessive
Morris Worms'