Akamai: Most attacks originated from Russia and Brazil, which replaced China and the U.S. as top two sources of attack traffic. 78 percent of Internet attacks observed by Akamasi targeted port 445, up from 68 percent during previous quarter. Microsoft has issued a patch that fixes the vulnerability exploited by earlier versions of Conficker. Experts believes the worm remains active because many infected machines are running unlicensed copies of Windows and don’t have access to security updates. Conficker.A and ConfickerB infections worldwide rose during the third quarter, while ConfickerC infections declined during the same period.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2124747/conficker-worm-hasn-t-gone-away–akamai-says.html