Government and private security teams are in a rush to get tooled up for possible new attacks by a computer worm that threatens to carry on disruptive activities on April 1.
The Conficker worm, also known as Downadup or Kido, first appeared last November and is estimated to have infected millions of computers worldwide.
By exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system, the worm can infect users’ computers and spread to other computers across a network automatically, without human interaction.
Computer security experts believed that a new variant of Conficker, which surfaced this year, on April 1 could contact 500 of 50,000 randomly generated domain names to receive updated copies or other malicious commands.
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