New Conficker variant
If you regularly follow computer security related blogs you may have read that recently there was some discussion about a potentially new variant of the Conficker worm. SRI researchers, in their detailed and interesting analysis decided to call the new variant Conficker B++.
Admittedly, SophosLabs has been slow to discuss this new variant.
The reason? Well, it’s very similar to variant B of Conficker, with a few changes, including the modified self-updating functionality. And the good news is that Sophos products detect this latest variant proactively, without requiring new updates, as Mal/Conficker-A.
SophosLabs researchers are currently analysing the new variant and will update the description of Mal/Conficker-A with the additional details soon.
Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Vanja Svajcer, SophosLabs, UKFiled under: Exploits, General, Malware
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