A million low end, pirate boxes still spewing malware relic.
18 Aug 2015 at 07:40, Darren Pauli
Three Dutch researchers have crunched data gleaned from efforts to battle the Conficker bot and declared anti-botnet initiatives all but useless for clean up efforts.
Conficker was born in 2008 spreading aggressively through a since patched remote code execution Microsoft vulnerability (MS08-067) that affected all operating systems including servers. The rate increased with a malware update that allowed Conficker to spread via USB
A million machines are thought to be still infected. Some 12 million unique IP addresses were still pinging a Conficker sinkhole server in the six weeks to December last year, despite that the botnet is headless and long abandoned.
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