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Case Conficker / Downadup
Mikko Hypponen & Patrik Runald
F-Secure Corporation

Species Conference
February 2, 2009
Amsterdam

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoAYsGV5MkY

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/

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  • worm is very silenced, it does not flood or broadcast the network out. it send 10 connection requests in 10 minutes.. if that guy, or guys who wrote that worm would work for a security company, then we will all be safe.. or mabe not :)

  • or it is just a guy who is interested in security, and how he can trick out the scurity companys. the creator is a security interested guy who have a lot of knowledge. the code of the worm is nicely and Not dirty, you will never find that kind of worm cos it hooks to allready running dll's and encrypt every payload different. and the

  • It seems like the guy who made this malware had the intension of creating a super botnet that he could use to take over the internet. Either that, or a nerd in a basement somewhere with too much free time that got pissed off at society.

  • I'd say it should be death penalty for people developing viruses like this. It's almost like spreading aids, just that this doesn't kill you personally but it may kill your company and thereby ruining economics for a nation if the company is huge enough. It's a threat towards today's society and that makes it a crime against humanity. Death. Sounds harsh, but let's face it, if they make a virus this powerful and for personal gain, putting millions in danger, they are a threat forever. Period.

  • Only because not very many people use it in relation to Windows.

  • Linux is a safer, smarter option though...

  • Linux is just as insecure as Windows, it's just such a small portion of people actually use it. If people used Linux instead of Windows, the same things would happen in Linux.

  • thats the problem. they are unalbe to bcause the hacker is too wel protected and has thought all about dat stuff and it would b nearly impossible to be able to find him by network ip's or other stuff like that

  • what's the answer to this?? Linux!!!

  • Why dont we just find teh guy then hold him at gun point and tell him to disable the virus

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