The figures behind the headache
The vulnerability in the Windows Help and Support Center (CVE-2010-1885) has been a constant irritation to antivirus experts for the third week in succession. I will try to provide an analysis of the problem with the help of KSN.
We first detected samples of the exploit on 10 June and at the time of writing, over 14,000 attacks using CVE-2010-1885 have been registered.
The graph above shows the number of detections per day.
However, the most important feature is the figure indicating the exploit’s distribution on the Internet. According to KSN, on 2 July, 2010 the total number of websites hosting the exploit averaged 300.
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