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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Blackworm hunbers [Was: Re: Martin Hannigan]
Well, let's hope we can watch the Super Bowl in peace -- I'm turning my pager & cell phone off anyways. :-) In any event, as Alex Eckelberry writes over on the Sunbelt Software blog, "...we’re now seeing infestations for the Blackworm worm (aka KamaSutra) getting close to 2 million. "Yesterday it was at close to 700k. "Of course, it’s possible that this URL has gotten out to the public, which would increase the count (simply hitting the website increments the count by one). However, to my knowledge, this URL is only known in the security community. "Remember that this worm has a very destructive payload. Even if you discount the number here, you’re still looking at a significant number of people who will suffer potentially devastating data loss." I couldn't agree more. Cheers, - ferg ps. http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/blackworm-worm-over-18-million.html -- Martin Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://isc.sans.org/blackworm > Further, our reports lead to a SANS ISC temporary URL's for each AS. The last time SANS felt something was so serious they needed all of NANOG to dance, they came out and said so. That's their handlers diary. I read it. A lot of people read it. It's well balanced and usually on target. Just like that. It's not alarmist. It seems fairly certain that as long as Symantec et. al. do their thing, we will be able to watch the superbowl in peace. [snip] -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet [email protected] or [email protected] ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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