3.5m hosts affected by the Conficker worm globally

A recently conducted experiment by F-Secure estimates that approximately 3.5 million hosts have been infected with W32/Conficker.worm also known as W32.Downadup spreading through the now patched MS08-067 as of November, 2008. Basically, F-Secure’s experiment took advantage of the very same domain registration algorithm that the cybercriminals were using in order to temporarily redirect some [...]

Malware author greets Microsoft’s Windows Defender team

A Russian malware author with involvement in the Zlob malware family, one of the most prolific malware families in 2008 thanks to its successful mimicking of video codecs, has left a message for the Windows Defender team inside a sample analyzed by French researchers. The message is a follow-up to a previous note left [...]