Conficker worm: mass infections
Posted: January 15th, 2009 | Tags: Conficker, Malware, Worm |For today three updatings Conficker are found out. The first cases инфицирования computers have been fixed in November, and jump of speed of distribution of the harmful program has had on the beginning of January.
Worms of the Conficker family use critical vulnerability in server services of Windows operating systems which Microsoft has eliminated in the end of the last year. Besides, infection can occur through USB-devices — for example, flesh-drives or МР3-players. Having got on the computer of a victim, Conficker loads additional malware components and allows cybercriminals to supervise the infected computer far off.
The worm is constantly updated, loading components from changing ip-addresses that complicates its blocking. Now it infects thousand computers worldwide. According to experts, founders of Conficker-worm prepare for the organisation of large-scale attack with use of the infected computers.
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