CONFICKER VARIANT DISPENSES WITH NEED TO PHONE HOME
Posted February 23, 2009
Stealth variant Sidesteps MS-led takedown effort
Virus authors have released a new variant of the infamous Conficker (Downadup) worm with enhanced auto-update features.
The changes in the new strain of the malware, dubbed Conficker B++, make it possible for malware authors to push out new code without publishing it on pre-programmed sites, as with earlier variants. The earlier approach has been frustrated by the recent formation of an alliance led by Microsoft geared up to block and take down sites associated with the worm.
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