ICMPECHO » 9 million http://www.icmpecho.com more than your usual type 8's Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Conficker claiming 9 million victims… http://www.icmpecho.com/2009/01/17/conficker-claiming-9-million-victims/ http://www.icmpecho.com/2009/01/17/conficker-claiming-9-million-victims/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:04:41 +0000 Daniel Nyström http://www.icmpecho.com/?p=1695 http://flickr.com/photos/dave-rogers/
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…now imagine the amount of cash you could bring in through affiliate programs with a botnet like that. Stunning.

The method for calculating the number of victims have been debated, but it’s probably not too far from the truth. More at The Register, who got the figures from the F-Secure article linked above.

My earlier posts on MS08-067 and related worms can be found here.

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