The latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) has complied new data taken from over 600 million systems worldwide, and has found that iterations of the Conficker worm have appeared on roughly 220 million computers over the past 2.5 years. This … View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News…
Mac Malware Outbreak Is Bigger than ‘Conficker’
An estimated 600,000 or more Macs are currently compromised and part of a massive botnet thanks to the Flashback Trojan. To put the size of the threat in some perspective, the Flashback Trojan botnet is even bigger than the massive Conficker botnet…relatively speaking. The Conficker botnet compromised an estimated seven…
Insight: Did Conficker help sabotage Iran program
(Reuters) – A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious “worm” that surfaced in late 2008 and infected millions of PCs. Conficker was used to open back doors into computers in Iran, then infect them…
Conficker worm connected to Stuxnet, respected US expert claims
The Stuxnet malware was not only built to attack Iran’s nuclear program its assault was aided by the Conficker worm of 2008, a respected US security researcher has claimed. According to a Reuters report, John Bumgarner of the independent US Cyber Consequences Unit (US-CCU) has researched a number of connections…
Researcher links Stuxnet virus to Conficker
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Did Conficker help sabotage Iran’s nuke program?
BANGALORE, INDIA: A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious “worm” that surfaced in late 2008 and infected millions of PCs. Conficker was used to open back doors into computers in Iran, then infect them…
Insight: Did Conficker help sabotage Iran’s nuke program?
(Reuters) – A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious “worm” that surfaced in late 2008 and infected millions of PCs. Conficker was used to open back doors into computers in Iran, then infect them…
Insight: Did Conficker worm help sabotage Iran’s nuke program?
(Reuters) – A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious “worm” that surfaced in late 2008 and infected millions of PCs. Conficker was used to open back doors into computers in Iran, then infect them…
IHC, Mac malware, Nerd New Year, Conficker and Privacy à la Google – 60 Sec Security
Watch the latest security news in just 60 seconds! Enjoy an IHC T-shirt sighting at Kiwicon; be unsurprised at yet more Mac malware; find out why Nerd New Year wasn’t; groan because Conficker just won’t go away; and get the feel for Privacy à la Google. View full post on…
‘Worm’: Inside the fight against Conficker virus
‘Worm: The First Digital World War’ by Mark Bowden Atlantic Monthly Press, 245 pp., $25 Mark Bowden is the kind of reporter capable of taking any subject, no matter how complex or far-flung, and nailing it — be it warfare in Somalia (“Black Hawk Down”), the hunt for a Colombian…
