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ICANN Continues Collaborative Response to Conficker Worm

by Greg Rattray on March 28, 2009

The Conficker worm that has infected hosts across the Internet continues to evolve. At this point, we do not believe cause exists for general alarm, but the Internet community must continue to take action against Conficker. ICANN continues to engage in collaborative efforts with security researchers, software & anti-virus vendors and with registries [...]

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Conflicker, DNS Security and what ICANN is doing about it

by Greg Rattray on February 14, 2009

Over the past two months the Internet has faced yet another threat to its security and one that directly involves the Domain Name System.

The Conflicker/Downadup worm infects computers running Windows operating systems variants. The infected computers can be remotely controlled (i.e. forming a botnet) and the infection propagates through a number of different routes. The worm has been estimated as infecting as many as 10 million hosts and data from the security community indicates the number is at least 1.5 million. One mechanism the worm’s code uses to enable control is to download commands by accessing specific date-based domain names.

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