The Enemy Within - Conficker

[mattx]

Long, long read here - all about a rather frightening internet worm called Conficker which has infected millions of computers and nobody knows what it's for.

 

The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The Enemy Within

[36Degrees]

Haven't read the article but I know how much aggravation it caused here last year - very tenacious, very clever virus.

[AngryTechnician]

nobody knows what it's for.

Skynet.

[joe90bass]

Interesting read! We got hit by it last year, and still have the odd PC that shows up with it............

[PiqueABoo]

No hype whatsoever in that article then.....

 

On one hand I've done much more security stuff and in much more depth than most folk, but either I'm a lot better at it than I give myself credit for or they've seriouly overcooked the "elite" angle. Conficker just wasn't/isn't that thrilling for me. Woopee-doo.. it used an MD6 reference algorithm, turned off WU and so on and so forth.. so [bleepin] what?

[maestromasada]

wow!! such a nice read. Thank you for sharing it. Scary though

[SimpleSi]

Took me 3 attempts to get of the little ......

 

A very nasty piece of work

 

Si

[CAM]

Was lucky and nailed it first time here. I was expecting it to return at least 3 times, we even drafted Sixth Form IT Students in to assist.

[Little-Miss]

*RUDE WORD ALERT!* lol

[e_g_r]

We isolated it in 2 and 1/2 days through some damn hard work. What concerned me was that as far as i was aware we were all patched up as per advice from Microsoft. Still got in on a pen from someone who's dad worked for the NHS and whose work laptop had it.

[fafster]

I personally think they spent so long making the worm hard to get rid of, they released the payload in an alpha state and thus it's too buggy to work.

[somabc]

Great Article!