On Mar 21, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Alex Lanstein wrote: >>>> There is, by the way, no relief from this due to events like the >>>> recent bust of the Mariposa botnet (13M systems); > > The public numbers advertised were 13M _IPs_ connecting to a sinkhole over > more than a month's time. When I've had visibility into other large botnets > (srizbi, rustock, mega-d), I was consistently seeing a 10 to 1 > IPs-to-unique-bots count over a time period of a week. Happy to make the raw > pcap data available to anyone who is curious. The UCSB guys showed similar > results in their excellent Torpig paper. > http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/torpig.pdf > > My unscientific finger-in-the-wind would put it at well under 1M when you are > talking a month and a half of monitoring IP connections.
First, Alex, don't you know all security people are 100% secretive? :) Back on topic, there is good data out there showing far, far more than 1 million hosts on the Internet infected. Hrmm, my first two Google searches did not turn anything up. So maybe those security guys are being secretive! -- TTFN, patrick
