8-Yr-Old Conficker is Still One of the Biggest Malware Families

New research has revealed that an 8-year former virus is still affecting thousands of machines, amounting to more than one-in-6 recognized attacks in April.

Hi back, Conficker...

Conficker is often termed one of the oldest worms on the internet that are still live. Despite the efforts of squashing it once and for all, it keeps popping upwards now and and so. One of the near encountered pieces of malware, the worm exploits a flaw in Windows and was discovered back in 2008. Microsoft published a patch earlier the virus even appeared in the public, but it spread like an epidemic as many consumers and businesses failed to update their machines. Information technology spread mainly thank you to USB drives and network sharing and managed to infect at one fourth dimension over 11 million devices.

Protecting itself by turning off antivirus programs and Windows security alerts, it also leaves affected systems vulnerable to other viruses. The worm didn't but bear upon the PCs, but also other electronics. Farsight Security had revealed that a hospital's portable X-ray machine was one of the affected systems constitute during their research.

Security researchers at Cheque Point said today that the Conficker virus continues to affect devices around the world. In its April 2022 Threat Index report, the research reveals that Conficker remains 1 of the about prominent malware family, accounting for more than one in every 6 attacks in the last month. Amounting to 17% recognized attacks, the malware is tallied by Sality virus (12% of all attacks) and Zeroaccess worm (6% of all recognized attacks). These two aren't whatsoever new additions in the malware industry also, as they have been attacking Windows machines since 2003 and 2022, respectively. All these three sit at the superlative of the line, leading ten malware families which account for one-half of all recognized attacks. Seems like the malware industry is post-obit the "quondam is gilded" adage, while giving newcomers their off-white share as well.

Check Betoken identified ii,000 unique malware families during April, revealing a wide range of threats against consumers and businesses. Along with other findings, the study also shared that XcodeGhost yet remains an imminent threat to the enterprise mobile device, every bit for the starting time fourth dimension attacks targeting iOS devices moved to the pinnacle three nearly common mobile malware. HummingBad, Android malware, remained in one of the top x malware attacks across all platforms globally.