Next attack of Conficker is expected on April 1st
Posted: March 26th, 2009 | Tags: Conficker |On April, 1st worm Conficker, probably, will force not to laugh, and to cry very many Internet users.
Conficker has been detected in November of last year, however the peak of its activity was on the beginning of January: for few days the worm infected about ten millions computers worldwide. The malicious program, capable to extend in the various ways, including through removable disk drives, allows malefactors to inspect the infected computers far off.
Computer security experts warn that on April 1st Conficker will receive a certain upgrade. Experts believe that the malicious program can be used for the purpose of the organisation of DDoS-attacks, and also for realisation of a mass spam sending or the infected letters.
Microsoft with support of some the organisations (including OpenDNS) has already launched campaign for struggle against a worm, providing locking of domain names which can be used by the worm.
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