April 10th, 2009

Conficker Finally Awakes & Dumps Payload

So it seems something big was brewing with Conficker, they just didn’t want to do what everyone expected and unleash it on April 1st when all eyes were on them.
Smart move really, they kept quiet and waited a week or so after before dropping some fairly serious and complex payloads (encrypted rootkits).
It seems like they [...]

January 19th, 2009

Conficker (AKA Downadup or Kido) Infections Skyrocket To An Estimate 9 Million

There hasn’t been a viral outbreak of this scale for quite some time, Conficker or Downadup as it’s known was only fairly recently discovered (Oct 2008) and has already infected an estimated 9 million machines!
It’s spreading fast though and it auto-updates itself via downloads from random domains making it almost impossible to stop as whatever [...]


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