"Nobody knows what the motive is other than to create a botnet," said Randy Abrams, director of technical education for security company ESET. "At this point, all we can do is speculate." The newly ...

The Conficker worm is back in action and stumping security experts once again. One of the most craftily designed pieces of malware recently got an update and is finally starting to behave like other ...

An expected activation of the Conficker.c worm at midnight on April 1 passed without incident, despite sensationalized fears that the Internet itself might be affected, but security researchers said ...

Exactly how many computers are infected with Conficker.c is not yet known, but it's one of the largest botnets ever seen and users aren't out of the woods yet An expected activation of the Conficker.c ...

Will the Conficker worm, expected to activate on April 1, set off viral destruction or be a dud? Security experts say Conficker.C (also called Downadup) presents a serious threat. Infected machines — ...

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 Thursday as they started analyzing the ...

A lot of really good research has been published about the Conficker worm, its many forms, infection vectors and speculation as to what it’s going to do next. But what seems to be missing is the ...

Researchers say that the latest update could include a connection between the Conficker worm to the active spam bot W32.Waledac. Specifically, researchers said they have seen circumstantial evidence ...

Conficker. How and why has it spread so successfully? If there’s any kind of IT security threat service providers and businesses are prepared for, it’s the mass infection worm or virus that overloads ...

The latest buzz about Conficker, the worm that's burrowed into millions of computers worldwide is that next Wednesday, April 1, may be it, the day the worm turns and wreaks havoc beyond belief.

Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines. Conficker, which takes ...

The malware makers who crafted Conficker must be extremely disappointed, a security expert said today, and not because the Internet didn’t come crashing down as some of the wildest speculation had ...