Tuesday, January 24, 2006

February 3rd is Possibly BlackWorm D-Day


Current BlackWorm Infection Counter
Image source: Sunbelt Software


Alex Eckelberry writes over on the Sunbelt Software blog:

The Kama Sutra worm (now being referred to by some experts as BlackWorm) has got the concern of a number of people in the security community.

I blogged a few days back about its rate of infestation. Last Saturday, the number of infected machines was at about 500k.

Today, that number is getting close to 700k (we know that because this worm actually reports back to a server that is keeping track of the number of infections).

Why the worry?

Read more here to find out.

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