Tag archive: Conficker

Working with authorities in eleven other countries, the U.S. Federal Bureau of investigation has seized bank accounts, data, and computer systems used by gangs that is accused of having scammed more than $72 million out of victims by peddling fake security software. The effort, dubbed Operation Trident Tribunal, seized more than 40 computers used to host Web pages and conduct fake scans designed to scare people into believing they needed to… Read More

It might not be in the news any more, but the Conficker virus won’t go away, in fact it’s growing and growing. Remember Conficker? Just a few short weeks ago it was the virus du jour, infecting thousands of computers. Then it dropped from the headlines – but it didn’t go away. In fact, it’s estimated to still be infecting around 50,000 computers a day, according to Symantec researchers. Most of the infections… Read More

April 1 may have come and gone without hordes of Conficker-infected zombie computers rising up from the Internet to take over the world, but that doesn't mean the worm has gone away. On April 7, Conficker's authors began seeding a new version of the worm, and—as with previous versions—the update packs in new features designed to get around security patches and techniques employed to stop the worm. The new variant… Read More

April 1 has turned into a certifiable day of lunacy for Internet pranksters, with even major companies like Google and Whole Foods Market getting in on the act with fake product announcements and features designed to make people grin. This year was promising to be a little different—at least according to mainstream media outlets—because the dreaded Conficker worm was schedule to “phone home” and receive new… Read More