Big Boost in Zombie PCs Seen From Latest Windows Exploit

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Does anyone _else_ have any numbers to support this?

Via TechWeb News.

[snip]

The virus exploiting a bug disclosed in Microsoft's latest security
bulletin has commandeered nearly 50,000 Widows PCs each day in the last
week, a security firm said Tuesday.

The average number of new zombie PCs recorded each day by CipherTrust
has jumped since Aug. 14 to 263,000 from 214,000, Dmitri Alperovitch,
research scientist for the Alpharetta, Ga., company said. The increase
has been blamed on the most recent version of Mocbot, also called
Wargbot and Graweg, which exploits the Windows flaw patched Aug. 8 by
Microsoft.

The increase itself is not a surprise, given that spikes in the number
of PCs commandeered by virus writers to spew spam or malware often go
up when new worms or vulnerabilities are disclosed. What is unusual in
this case, however, is how the machines are being infected.

[snip]

More:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/security/192203211

- ferg


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