4 Dec, 2008
Conficker spreads to 500,000 host botnet – users still unpatched
As a followup to my post on the Conficker worm in the wild, Trend Micro reported on Sunday that they have now seen over 500,000 infected hosts with this malware (which Trend call WORM_DOWNAD.A and is also known as Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.l). That’s a pretty incredible growth trajectory for the Windows RPC exploit which only became widely known on October 23rd. At this rate we could be seeing the birth of a rival to established botnets like Storm.
