"New Windows worm builds massive botnet" (computerworld / trendmicro)

[Paul Vixie <vixie () isc org>]

Half a million PCs infected, botnet still growing, says researcher

December 1, 2008 (Computerworld)  The worm exploiting a critical Windows
bug that Microsoft Corp. patched with an emergency fix in late October is
being used to build a new botnet, a security researcher said today.

Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro Inc., said
that the worm, which his company has dubbed "Downad.a" -- it's called
"Conficker.a" by Microsoft and "Downadup" by Symantec Corp. -- is a key
component in a new botnet that criminals are creating. 

"We think 500,000 is a ball park figure," said Macalintal when asked the
size of the new botnet. "That's not as large as some, such as [the] Kraken
[botnet], or Storm earlier, but it's still starting to grow."

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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9121958
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