Conficker, One Year On
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I’ve seen a few articles popping up about Conficker and how damaging it was and how we handled it. Conflicker was first detected in November 2008 and It exploited several flaws in the Microsoft Windows Operating Systems to establish a connection with a cloud based virtualised administration console. The authors simply wanted to create a large botnet, which could provide a foundation for DDoS attacks. These bots or zombie machines would be controlled remotely...
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