kido | Darknet – The Darkside

March 18th, 2009

New Conficker Variant More Aggressive

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 [...]

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 [...]