New, Stealthy Conficker B++ Worm Discovered

nandemoari writes "A new variant of the Conficker/Downadup worm has been detected. The worm opens a backdoor on an infected machine and allows hackers remote control of infected PCs. Dubbed Conficker B++ (and not to be confused with Conficker B), the new variant of the worm opens a backdoor with auto-update functionality, allowing a hacker to distribute malware to infected machines. It's difficult to know exactly how long Conficker B++ has been circulating, but researchers first noticed it on February 6 of this year." If this seems familiar to you, it probably is.

Re:Why only B?

[Neon Spiral Injector]

Then he can sell it on eBay as A++++++++++++++

This is just a passing virus

[BadAnalogyGuy]

No need to worry. I'd be more worried about Conficker C. Lots of opportunities to shoot you in the foot.

Then someone will undoubtedly create Conficker C++ and everyone will cry about how hard it is to understand and they will all flock to Conficker Java which promises a much cleaner object system.

But eventually you know that some idiot is going to write Conficker C# which looks suspiciously like Conficker Java, but after a while grows into this gigantic mess of quickfix designs.

So if you think Conficker B is bad, just wait a while.

Cornfucker national anthem...

[Smidge207]

*ahem* [taps microphone, clears throat again] *ahem*

And a five, six, seven, eight:

"Botnets, worldwide botnets.
What kind of boxes are on botnets?

Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, TRUE!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too.

Are boxes, found on botnets.
All running Windows, FOO [fu]!"

=Smidge=

But can it....

[SGDarkKnight]

cause five tankers in the Ellingson fleet to capsize?

Re:profit motive

[Anonymous Coward]

Sell anti-virus software.

Re:Old news?

[Duhfus]

I must admit, I'm not very knowledgeable on the editorial process of ./

Don't worry, the editors don't either.

I can't seem to get a Linux copy of this worm

[mrphoton]

I am feeling very left out, I can't seem to find Conficker B++ or even Conficker B in my yum repository. sigh... It is such a shame that linux is always behind the curve as far as new and exciting features are concerned.

Re:Old news?

[Spatial]

The editors are a great guy, they accidentally a dupe and don't afraid of anything.

How to detect Conficker C#

[Dystopian Rebel]

The only way to detect Conficker C# is that it requires the .NET runtime environment and MS SQL Server Express.

Armour Hot Dogs?

[srobert]

Seems to go with the Armour Hot Dog song. Was that the intent?

When Change comes to viruses

[lord_sarpedon]

I'd like to see an incredibly stealthy virus - one that stays out of the way to the point that it isn't detected for some number of years.

Have it patch key parts of the Windows kernel to degrade performance in subtle but believable ways...
Lobotomize the scheduler so that context switches occur much less often than they should for responsiveness.
Kick up the swappiness from Ridiculous (stock setting) to We've-gone-plaid
Divide the given buffer length for each I/O operation so that CPU usage goes up and throughput goes down.

I wonder if we'd _ever_ notice.

Re:When Change comes to viruses

[daveime]

You just described Vista ...