By now you've probably all heard of the Conficker worm that's made headlines in the past few months. That's the worm that's supposedly infected 10 MILLION PCs which are now part of one massive botnet (DDOS looming?), it uses advanced encryption and is considered one of the most elaborate engineered worms to date and for which Microsoft posted a $250,000 reward to anyone who can identify it's creators.
This Wednesday (April 1st, 2009) is D-day (payload execution) for Conficker.C . What's the payload you ask? Good question. Nobody knows (yet), because on April 1st, the worm auto-downloads a new set of malware to execute from 500 random domains of a list of 50,000 (good luck blocking all those).
Useful Links:
CONFICKER FAQ: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10204590-83.html
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker (good history of the worm + symptoms of past variants)
The contra-story: Are the fears exaggerated? http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/0 ... tdown.html
