Conficker: Deadly Virus or a Hoax?

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The "Conficker" worm is live within Australia, security vendors have confirmed, where it is April 1. At this point, however, it remains quiescent.

Security company Trend Micro has seen the Conficker or Downadup worm increase the number of DNS resolutions, as expected, said Paul Ferguson, the lead researcher for security intelligence, advanced threats research. At this point, however, the worm has taken no other action.
Conficker is expected to hit the United States on Wednesday, April 1. But it is already a day ahead across the international date line, where Conficker is waking up.
In recent days, the prevailing attitude toward Conficker has turned away from a threat that could wreak havoc upon the Internet, more toward an event that needs to be closely monitored, but not necessarily feared. In part, that's because a signature has been identified and a scanner developed. Security analysts have also developed a list of actions to take to mitigate the effects of Conficker and similar worms.
Conficker preys upon a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that was patched in October, although the worm does take a number of actions to try and shut down antivirus programs and prevent them from updating. The Apple Macintosh OS X operating system is completely immune.
So far, however, Conficker has laid low. "We've seen some host resolution in our honeypot systems, they're doing that," Ferguson said. "But aside from doing the expected DNS resolution, we haven't really seen anything else."
A spokesman from Symantec also said that the company's researchers haven't noted any malicious activity.
On April 1, according to security researchers, Conficker is scheduled to determine the local time, about once every 24 hours, to determine if it is in fact April 1 or later. At that time, the worm begins to generate a list of 50,000 domains, of which it checks about 500 or so for what researchers assume to be a digitally signed payload. What that payload is or what it will order the Conficker machines to do is unknown.
"The most commonly accepted thinking is that this is nothing more than just an effort to build survivability into the system," Ferguson said.
So what is Conficker? At this point, no one knows. But more and more researchers seem to be thinking that the number of infected Conficker machines will turn out to be a botnet, that can be ordered to attack servers or networks owned by governments or enterprises.
"I think it's just the Storm guys trying to build a bullet-proof botnet," said Roger Thompson, the chief research officer of AVG Technologies, in an instant-message conversation. "I always thought it was a corp/gov/edu problem."

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