3.5m hosts affected by the Conficker worm globally
A recently conducted experiment by F-Secure estimates that approximately 3.5 million hosts have been infected with W32/Conficker.worm also known as W32.Downadup spreading through the now patched MS08-067 as of November, 2008. Basically, F-Secure’s experiment took advantage of the very same domain registration algorithm that the cybercriminals were using in order to temporarily redirect some of [...]