New Average for Shellshock Attacks: Over 1,970 Incidents Every Hour

  • 30 September 2014
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Attackers did a lot of probing before deploying attacks
By Ionut Ilascu on September 30th, 2014 Since Wednesday, September 24, when the original Shellshock vulnerability for the Bash command-line interpreter was disclosed to the public, the attack rate has increased to more than 1,970 events per hour, telemetry data from a security company reveals.
Incapsula announced last week that since the bug became known to the public, in a 24-hour period, from Thursday until Friday, an average of about 725 attacks were recorded each hour, amounting to a total of more than 17,400 incidents for the entire monitored period.

Attacks increased significantly during the weekend

In an update issued this week, the company informs that incidents involving Shellshock have increased significantly, the information being extracted from their systems in a four-day period after the disclosure of the initial vulnerabilities assigned the CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169 identifiers. Distribution of attack atempts and country of origin. Full Article

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Based on this thread this was a well organized and planned attack it was well mapped out.

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