Tag: Conficker
Tech Time Warp: Conficker’s persistent ability to outsmart defenses
Tech Time Warp: Conficker’s persistent ability to outsmart defenses
For the past 16 years, Conficker has been a virulent piece of malware. First identified in November 2008, it continues to persist in legacy operating systems (looking at you, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003). Take a look back in...
Tech Time Warp: Conficker, the Botnet that became too hot to handle
Tech Time Warp: Conficker, the Botnet that became too hot to handle
Conficker is a piece of malware we just can’t seem to quit. Despite first being identified in November 2008, some estimate that as of September 2020 there were still 150,000 Conficker detections a month, mostly in vastly populated Brazil and...
