Nyxem Spread by Country
Countries affected by the Nyxem (or Blackworm or Kama Sutra or MyWife or CME 24) Virus in January and early February 2006.
Support for this work was provided by Cisco Systems, NSF, DHS, and CAIDA members.
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Each graph shows the number of IP addresses, number of probes sent to the web counter, and number of /24 subnets containing an infected computer in that country. Countries with very few infections such that timeseries graphs are not useful and informative have been omitted.
<About the Authors:
This work was sponsored by:David Moore is the Technical Director of CAIDA and Ph.D. Candidate in the UCSD Computer Science Department. Colleen Shannon is a Senior Security Researcher at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). David and Colleen also run the UCSD Network Telescope. The Network Telescope and associated security efforts are a joint project of the UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department and the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis.
Grants from Cisco Systems, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and CAIDA members.
Additional Content
Nyxem Spread in the Americas
The Spread of the Nyxem (or Blackworm or Kama Sutra or MyWife or CME 24) Virus in the Americas in January and early February 2006.