Posted tagged ‘conficker’

Conficker wakes up, updates via P2P, drops payload

April 9, 2009

From CNET

The Conficker worm is finally doing something–updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday.

However…

Conficker.C failed to make a splash a week ago despite the fact that it was programmed to activate on April 1. It has infected between 3 million and 12 million computers, according to Perry.


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