Conficker calls home

03 March 2009

A Sophos researcher has found that the randomly generated domains the Conficker botnet will be connecting to during March includes a number of legitimate websites. Conficker has already claimed a number of high-profile victims (including the UK Ministry of Defence) who neglected to roll out a Microsoft patch that fixes the vulnerability it uses as its primary infection vector. Its next set of victims are simply unlucky enough to happen to have a domain the worm will stomp on.

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