Conficker: A 10-year retrospective on a legendary worm

ronjor · Nov 22, 2018

Ziv Mador, VP of Security Research, Trustwave SpiderLabs November 21, 2018

This November marked the 10-year anniversary of Conficker, a fast-spreading worm targeting Microsoft systems that went on to claim one of the highest levels of infection in history. Millions of computers were eventually infected by the worm, including hospitals across Europe as well as ordinary consumers.
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ronjor · Jun 30, 2019

The Worm That Nearly Ate the Internet

It infected 10 million computers. So why did cybergeddon never arrive?
By Mark Bowden June 29, 2019
Just over 10 years ago, a unique strain of malware blitzed the internet so rapidly that it shocked cybersecurity experts worldwide. Known as Conficker, it was and remains the most persistent computer worm ever seen, linking computers with Microsoft operating systems globally, millions of them, to create a vast illicit botnet, in effect, a black-market supercomputer.
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