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 [...]

A bit of an update to the conficker worm that is supposedly scheduled for new updates and instructions today wednesday 1st. April 2009 and that nobody except for the bad guys knows what those instructions would be. Fyodor has rolled out a new nmap beta release to the nmap scripting engine that enables it [...]

So the big Conficker scare of April 1st has passed without any real events, no major sites taken down, no major online terror campaigns spawned.
Just a new more sophisticated, harder to stop version of Conficker updating from a longer list of domains.
It seems like this malware might be here to stay and infecting more and [...]

Conficker has gotten quite a lot of news recently with it growing so fast and Microsoft offering a bounty for the authors.
It seems like the Conficker authors are really serious about retaining control of their botnet and expanding it further without hindrance from the companies trying to stop them.
It’s quite likely they are netting some [...]

We did mention Conficker when it broke out back in January causing one of the largest scale infections ever seen (an estimated 9 million machines in just a few months).
The latest news is that Microsoft are offering a bounty to catch the author of the malware, we have seen this back in 2003/4 (The Anti-virus [...]

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 [...]