Code Red growing steadily - It's back and its not sleeping !

A quick check over at www.incidents.org and the charts there tell the story. Code Red is awake and growing at a steady pace - something like a snowball rolling down a hill and picking up size as it goes.... it was at 115,568 infected sites when this article was posted. For comparison sake, SAN recorded a total of 280,391 infected servers during the ENTIRE last round of Code Red. It has accomplished in 15 hours what it days / weeks to do last time...

"Based on our preliminary analysis, we expect to see the activity of this particular worm to compare to the July 19th infection," said Deborah Weierman, a spokeswoman for government's National Infrastructure Protection Center. "At the time, it resulted in over 250,000 infections on systems. Today, we believe that should be achieved by this afternoon."

Here is a sample of the headlines that I just captured and you will see quite a change in the topic of headlines compared to the ones that were being posted earlier

Code Red...
Code Red may be getting hotter...
Code Red may be picking up speed...
Code Red worm still active on the Net...
Code Red may be picking up speed...
Code Red Takes Hold of Web Sites...
Code Red takes hold in at least 22,000 Web sites...
Code Red infections growing...
Slow Code Red could pick up pace....