Read Me Pushdo Trojan outbreak: 11 THOUSAND systems infected in just 24 hours

Pushdo Trojan outbreak: 11 THOUSAND systems infected in just 24 hours
Just 77 machines in the UK, though

A wave of attacks by cybercrooks pushing a new variant of the resilient Pushdo Trojan has compromised more than 11,000 systems in just 24 hours. Indian PCs have been most affected by the outbreak, but systems in the UK, France and the US have also been hit, according to security software firm Bitdefender.

The Romanian firm reckons 77 machines have been infected in the UK via the botnet in the past 24 hours, with more than 11,000 infections reported worldwide in the same period. Other countries that have been heavily affected by the Pushdo variant include Vietnam and Turkey.

Bitdefender figures come from traffic towards the sinkholed domains associated with the botnet's control system. Traffic to these seized sinkholes came from 11,000 unique IP addresses in a period of 24 hours. These pings represent infected hosts phoning home for instructions.

Read more on this topic - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/17/pushdo_trojan_outbreak/