Interesting Numbers from Nepenthes
There's an interesting post over at the Honeyblog regarding statistics taken from Nepenthes. The were sensors across 16,000 IPs and the monitoring has been underway for a month.
Total Number Of Hits: 6,325,331
Number Of Unique IPs: 8,994
Number Of Unique Malware: 1,555Average Connections per Day: 950,771
Average Exploits per Day: 242,049
If you were previously unaware of Nepenthes, check out the website. "Nepenthes is a versatile tool to collect malware. It acts passively by emulating known vulnerabilities and downloading malware trying to exploit these vulnerabilities."
Wow – 242,049 is the average number of exploits per day… Despite the number of computers taking part in the project, that’s one hell of a lot of exploits