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Updated Stats for Conficker.C

Posted by Hollly Stewart on April 09, 2009 at 10:45 AM EDT.

We thought we'd keep you posted on the latest regional stats we're seeing.  The number of unique IPs is still increasing slightly:

4/2/2009  64,147
4/3/2009  69,976
4/4/2009  64,964
4/5/2009  63,492
4/6/2009  69,263
4/7/2009  71,643
4/8/2009  71,219

We've seen around 11% more unique IPs in the past few days in comparison to a week ago.  The number of unique IPs we're seeing represents around 6% of all IPs picked up by all of our Proventia IDS/IPS devices monitored by our Managed Security Services, which is also up slightly from the previous week. As we mentioned before, we caution against extrapolating from this percentage to the total number of infected hosts on the Internet as our sensors only report on sources of suspicious activity.

Here's our current breakdown by region and top ten countries:

PS and for those of you that did not like my previous monochrome charts (I'm a visual minimalist at heart, you see... thus the monochrome), Happy Easter!  Hope you enjoy the colors. :-)

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