Clampi latest Trojan to gain momentum in Windows world
Conficker news might be dying out there but a new Trojan is now making headlines.
Clampi targets Windows machines and is designed to steal credentials from infected systems.
Security experts believe that it has already started attacking innocent victims.
Incidentally, it is not a new threat. It is known [...]
University of Utah: Latest victim of Conficker
University of Utah has confirmed that Conficker has spread on their network and they are working on fixing the problem.
The virus is said to have infected around 700 machines on the university campus.
University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson stated that no personal information has been compromised by [...]
SpywareProtect2009 malware being downloaded by Conficker
Conficker is finally active and showing what it was designed to do.
Security experts have revealed that the computers infected with the Conficker worm are being delivered malware which includes the scareware product SpywareProtect2009.
Products like SpywareProtect2009 are called scareware as they try to scare users into believing that their system [...]
Conficker comes back to life with an update
Conficker worm is back in news as security experts have said that it has started updating itself with some new mysterious data.
The update system has delivered encrypted software to compromised machines.
No information is yet available on what sort of data is being supplied to the machines infected [...]
India has around 25,000 PCs infected with Conficker
Security companies claim that the Indian market has around 25,000 personal computers which are infected with the Conficker worm.
The latest variant of the Conficker worm was supposed to become active on April 1.
This malware affects vulnerability in the Windows operating system that Microsoft has already patched. [...]
Neeris worm updated to make use of Conficker related flaw
Microsoft has warned that an old worm named Neeris has been updated to exploit the same vulnerability which is being targeted by the various variants of Conficker.
Neeris worm was first discovered in 2005.
Microsoft Malware Protection Center blog had this information: “It is interesting to note [...]
Nmap updated to detect Conficker
A new version of Nmap has been released which is capable of detecting Conficker on a network.
This new edition features a parameter which can be used to scan a network for the worm…
The command to be used is:
nmap -PN -T4 -p139,445 -n -v –script=smb-check-vulns –script-args safe=1 [targetnetworks]
This new updated [...]
IBM: Conficker on around 4% of PCs out there
IBM’s Internet Security Systems division has revealed that as per their research around 4 percent of computers connected to the internet are infected with Conficker.
The service scanned around 2 million computers over the past 24 hours to come to this conclusion.
Market analysts believe that this [...]
How to detect and remove Conficker – Downadup malware?
The latest variants of Conficker worm are set to strike tomorrow. Here are some tools and other information on how to save yourself from this malware.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-067 – Critical
This security bulletin from the company has the patches that closes the vulnerability misused by [...]
Conficker could strike again on April 1
Security industry companies are warning that the Conficker worm could strike again on April 1.
The latest variant of the Conficker worm is all set to start its damage from April.
Symantec Security Response however admitted: “It doesn’t mean we’re going to see some large cyber event on [...]
