Pandemic of the botnets 2010
FYI...
Conficker worm - Akamai report
- http://www.computerworld.com/s/artic...y_Akamai_says?
January 15, 2010 - "Variants of the Conficker worm were still active and spreading* during the third quarter, accounting for much of attack traffic on the Internet, according to Akamai Technologies... During the third quarter, 78 percent of Internet attacks observed by Akamai targeted port 445, up from 68 percent during the previous quarter. Port 445, which is used by Microsoft Directory Services, is the same port that Conficker targets, aiming to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability in Windows and infect the targeted computer. Most attacks originated from Russia and Brazil, which replaced China and the U.S., as the top two sources of attack traffic. Russia and Brazil accounted for 13 percent and 8.6 percent of attack traffic, respectively, Akamai said. The U.S., which came in at No. 3, accounted for 6.9 percent of attack traffic and No. 4 China accounted for 6.5 percent..."
* http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org...Tracking#toc12
Conficker Working Group
- http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/wiki/
> http://www.team-cymru.org/Monitoring/Graphs/
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/where-in-...wnadconficker/
Jan 26, 2010
