Author: Elinor Mills (cnet news)
Gumblar, a new attack that compromises Web sites, has added new domain names that are downloading malware onto unsuspecting computers, stealing FTP credentials to compromise more sites, and tampering with Web traffic, a security firm said on Thursday.
The Gumblar attack started in March with Web sites being compromised and attack code [...]
Posts Tagged ‘conficker’
Gumblar is awake and worse than Conficker (Experts say)
Monday, June 1st, 2009Conficker virus starts to attack computers
Monday, April 27th, 2009A malicious software program known as Conficker is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, according to computer security experts.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, was expected to wreak havoc on April 1 when it was due to be activated, but it failed to cause [...]
Conficker’s $9.1 billion estimated economic cost
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Source: Dancho Danchev @ ZDNet
In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion.
Despite that their analysis also considered a much limited infection rate (200,000 infected [...]
German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Source: Ryan Naraine @ ZDNet
Conficker worm squirming through the Windows operating system, security researchers at the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to fingerprint the malware on infected networks.
Now, with the help of Dan Kaminsky and Rich Mogull, off-the-shelf network scanning vendors have the ability remotely (and anonymously) detect Conficker infections.
“You [...]
Conficker worm hits University of Utah computers
Monday, April 13th, 2009Source: The Associated Press – Salt Lake City
University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school’s three hospitals.
University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak of the Conficker worm, which can slow computers and steal personal information, was first detected Thursday. By Friday, [...]
Conficker Removal – Disinfection Tool
Friday, April 10th, 2009Source: ThreatPost/ZDNet
How to fight network worm Conficker
Symptoms of network infection.
1. Network traffic volume increases if there are infected PCs in the network, because network attack starts from these PCs.
2. Anti-Virus product with enabled Intrusion Detection System informs of the attack Intrusion.Win.NETAPI.buffer-overflow.exploit
Short description of the Net-Worm.Win32.Kido family.
1. It creates files autorun.inf and RECYCLED\{SID<….>}\RANDOM_NAME.vmx on [...]
Conficker botnet installs scareware on infected computers
Friday, April 10th, 2009Source: Ryan Naraine @ ZDnet
The Conficker botnet has stirred to life, using its peer-to-peer communication system to update itself and download scareware (fake anti-virus programs) to millions of infected Windows machines.
The Conficker update comes a week after a heavily-hyped April 1st activation date and provides the first sign of the motivation behind this malware threat [...]
#1 Internet Threat, Conficker, Gets A Fresh Update!
Thursday, April 9th, 2009Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines.
Source: Jeremy Kirk @ CIO
Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines.
Conficker, [...]
Lirba Sotnot Virus – Worse than Conficker Worm?
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009NOTE: Yes, this was a April Fool’s joke. – Ryan
Source: Confidential
Reports have been pouring in from all over about a new worm released today with devastating effects. Some say that the actions taken by the worm can lead to worse damages than what has and continues to be caused by the already notorious “Conficker Worm”. [...]
Conficker update attempts to foil Cabal
Friday, March 13th, 2009Source: Robert Lemos @ Security Focus
The Conficker worm, which checks 250 different domains each day for an update, could become a lot harder to stop, if those responsible for the malicious program can get their latest code to infected computers.
The software module, discovered on Friday and initially dubbed Downadup.C and Conficker.C, causes Conficker-infected computers to [...]
