SIRv12: the obstinacy of Conficker

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SIRv12: the obstinacy of Conficker
Botnet	Conficker
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2012 / 2012-04-25
Editor/Conference	Microsoft Malware Protection Centre
Link	http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2012/04/25/the-tenacity-of-conficker.aspx (Archive copy)
Author	Joe Blackbird
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ Conficker is one of the most significant threat families facing organizations worldwide today; its initial impact along with its continued obstinacy shows that clearly. In the fourth quarter of 2011 – three years after its initial release – it attempted to infect just over 1.7 million computers. Conficker’s persistence is illustrated not only by the number of computers it has attempted to infect, but also by the nearly 59 million attacks launched against those computers in the fourth quarter of 2011. But perhaps the most interesting manifestation of its obstinacy is that it has been the number one threat facing businesses for the past two and a half years.

Bibtex

 @misc{2012BFR996,
   editor = {Microsoft Malware Protection Centre},
   author = {Joe Blackbird},
   title = {SIRv12: the obstinacy of Conficker},
   date = {25},
   month = Apr,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://blogs.technet.com/b/mmpc/archive/2012/04/25/the-tenacity-of-conficker.aspx}},
 }