Source: 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 [...]
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German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Conficker 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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
#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 [...]
Something’s phishy
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009Staying one click ahead of the SMiShers and other internet scammers is a full-time job, writes Lia Timson. It’s true: the more aware of the risks on the internet that computer users become, the more sophisticated and creative criminals become in their attacks. Internet security companies are reporting a bumper year for online crime aimed [...]
