Conficker Infections Number In The Millions
Security company Kaspersky Lab has identified 200,000 unique addresses in Conficker's peer-to-peer network - but the actual number of nodes affected is far higher.
New research by Kaspersky has re-opened the question of whether Conficker was hyped. While the Conficker worm generated an intense amount of public interest, the number of computers infected with the newest variant of the worm seems to be relatively small.
“While analysing Kido [Conficker] network behaviour we’ve been able to develop an application that helped us to get an in depth insight into the peer-to-peer network communications of the malware, which have been used to distribute updates over the last week,” blogged Georg Wicherski, a virus analyst at the security company. “Over a 24 hour observation period, we’ve been able to identify 200,652 unique IPs participating in the network, far less then initial estimated Kido infection counts.”
