China last year hosted more than one in four of the world's computers infected with a major variant of the Conficker worm,
according to an official report, highlighting the wide reach of malware inside the country.
China had about 7 million Internet Protocol (IP) addresses infected with Conficker B at the end of last year, according to
a recent annual security report posted on the Web site of China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team
(CNCERT). The number of infections varied during the second half of the year, which the report covered, but was higher than
5 million during all but one week.
The huge figures gave China up to 28 percent of the world's Conficker B infections depending on the week, the report shows.
The controllers of Conficker so far have hardly used their network of infected computers, but they could potentially use it
to launch a crippling denial-of-service attack by ordering all of the computers to contact a victim server at the same time.
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