Confickr is just 2 weeks old and infected more than nine million machines. The officials said that tha situation is unique because worms weren't considered as an effective way to make money in cybercrime.It is a challenge for experts to handle this type of issue. However the hackers behind the massive worm have devised an innovative way to spread the attack, making it hard to catch and quarantine.
Instead of using spam emails, the worm initially attacked the Microsoft MS08-067 vulnerability in Windows, allowing it to infiltrate network security. This allowed the worm to spread through open network shares, weak passwords and removable USB drives.
The Microsoft vulnerability had a patch, released last October, that halted the attack. However, the added element of the USB drives made it possible for the worm to infiltrate patched machines as well.
Some businesses and organizations that have tried to update their antivirus product have also run into problems. Confickr prevents already-compromised machines from getting fixed by blocking access to Microsoft's websites and disabling the automatic update function.
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