Year's biggest threat finally reveals moneymaking model
The makers of Conficker, the worm that has infected millions of PCs, have begun to do what all botnet owners do -- make money -- security researchers said today as they started analyzing the malware's newest variant.
Conficker.e, as the update has been dubbed, began downloading and installing on previously infected PCs at midnight London time, said Kevin Hogan, director of security response operations at Symantec Corp.
In several ways, the new Conficker is a lot like the original version of the worm, which appeared in November 2008. "At first blush, it looked like the Conficker.a variant," said Hogan. "But this is actually new in that it rejumbled existing code from previous versions."
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The makers of Conficker, the worm that has infected millions of PCs, have begun to do what all botnet owners do -- make money -- security researchers said today as they started analyzing the malware's newest variant.
Conficker.e, as the update has been dubbed, began downloading and installing on previously infected PCs at midnight London time, said Kevin Hogan, director of security response operations at Symantec Corp.
In several ways, the new Conficker is a lot like the original version of the worm, which appeared in November 2008. "At first blush, it looked like the Conficker.a variant," said Hogan. "But this is actually new in that it rejumbled existing code from previous versions."
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131380
