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CONFICKER/ DOWNAD 9 Years After: Examining its Impact on Legacy Systems

  • Posted on:December 7, 2017 at 4:00 am
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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Despite being nearly a decade old, and years past its peak, DOWNAD, also known as CONFICKER, has not gone away. 9 years to the month after its first discovery, we take a look at the numbers to see where DOWNAD is today, and why it is still one of the world’s most prevalent malware.

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Tags: ConfickerDOWNAD

1H 2014 Spam Attacks and Trends

  • Posted on:July 24, 2014 at 8:40 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Maria Manly (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
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In the first half of the year, the spam volume increased by 60% compared to the data last 1H 2013.  We can attribute these to several factors:  the prevalence of DOWNAD and the steady boom of malware-related emails with spam-sending capabilities (such as MYTOB). Prevalent threats like UPATRE and ZeuS/ZBOT also employed spam as its…

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Tags: ConfickercybercrimeDOWNADGermanyMalwareSpamZBOTZeuS

Five Years Old And Still On The Run: DOWNAD

  • Posted on:November 21, 2013 at 9:51 am
  • Posted in:Exploits, Malware, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Ryan Certeza (Technical Communications)
2

Five years ago, Conficker/DOWNAD was first seen and quickly became notorious due to how quickly it spread and how much damage it caused. Remarkably, after all that time, it’s still alive. It can still pose a serious problem, as it can propagate to other systems on the same network as an infected machine – a factor that…

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Tags: ConfickerDOWNADDownadupdownupkidoMicrosoftMS08-067worm

DOWNAD/Conficker Watch: New Variant in The Mix?

  • Posted on:April 8, 2009 at 11:16 am
  • Posted in:Botnets, Malware, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Ivan Macalintal (Threat Research Manager)
113

Days after the April 1st activation date of Conficker, nothing interesting was seen so far in our Downad/Conficker monitoring system except the continuous checking of dates and times via Internet sites, checking of updates via HTTP, and the increasing P2P communications from the Conficker peer nodes. Well that was until last night when we saw…

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Tags: ConfickerDOWNADDownadup

What Will Go DOWNAD on April 1?

  • Posted on:March 30, 2009 at 2:21 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Botnets, Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
16

Much has been said about the DOWNAD worm (a.k.a. Conficker) and its enigmatic payload that will supposedly be unleashed on April 1st. There are two days to go until the moment of truth and the hype isn’t expected to die down. But online threat history tells us that trigger/activation dates of equally hyped malware have…

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Tags: April 1stConfickerDOWNADDownadup
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