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.