April 1, Confiker day, and now what?
April 1, Confiker day, and now what?
BCC Management Highlight about Confiker
Time has ticked and we have arrived on D-Day.
Confiker the most talked about event of the year day (in the I.T security world at least).Experts awaited Wednesday as a worm infecting millions of computers activated itself as predicted on April 1.
So where to now?
Awaiting what?
According to :
Chris Thomas, principal consultant for CA's Internet Security Business Unit told CRN, 1 April is when machines infected with the Conficker.C malware will "wake up" and start communicating with each other, waiting for commands.
"The sheer scale of infections is bigger than anything that CA has seen to date, " he said.
The virus scare has launched a hunt for the writer of the worm, in the software business so much so that Microsoft has offered a $250, 000** USD bounty on his head.
In February, Microsoft partnered with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response to the Conficker.C (aka Downadup) worm
Offering rewards can do no harm, but will it be enough to attract the computer underground to inform on the Confiker creators ring,
The deadline has prompted fears of a Y2K-like occurrence, though most experts say that similar to the meltdown fears at the turn of the century, April 1 deadline will hardly be noticed by most computer users.
So what have you done to prevent such attacks, are you ready?
Will it effect your business?
Did you patch all your systems in your environment?
Did you have time to patch all your systems in your environment?
Does this fall under your business continuity plan/ strategy?
** "Small Reminder of past Microsoft rewards"
In November 2003 Microsoft offered a total of USD 500, 000 for the arrest and successful prosecution of the people behind the Blaster and Sobig worms, and said that it was earmarking a further USD 4.5 million bounty for the purposes of capturing future virus writers. In May 2004, Microsoft also agreed to pay USD 250, 000 to a group of informants who contacted the company about Sven Jaschan, the teenage German author of the rampant Sasser and Netsky worms.
Sources CNN, Sophos, CA
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