Source: 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 [...]
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Conficker’s $9.1 billion estimated economic cost
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Conficker 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 [...]
#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 [...]
Conficker Worm Gets an Evil Twin
Friday, February 20th, 2009The criminals behind the widespread Conficker worm have released a new version of the malware that could signal a major shift in the way the worm operates. Source: Robert McMillan @ CIO February 19, 2009 — IDG News Service — The criminals behind the widespread Conficker worm have released a new version of the malware [...]
