Confounded Conficker

2009-03-01

Vincent Tiu

Microsoft, USA
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

For the last couple of months the worm known as Conficker.B (aka Downadup) has been causing havoc and keeping IT administrators awake at night as well as receiving a lot of attention from AV researchers. Vincent Tiu provides some details about this interesting piece of malware.


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