New Internet worm set to attack April 1
24 March 2009
OTTAWA - A malicious cyber worm could wreak havoc on millions of potentially-infected computers April 1 - or it could all be one big April Fool's joke.
But the Canadian Internet Registration Authority says it isn't taking any chances when it comes to the latest variant of the Conficker worm. CIRA, which manages Canada's dot-ca (.ca) domain name registry, is warning the worm will force infected computers to randomly connect to 50,000 web URLs a day beginning April 1. Files instructing the worm to perform malicious actions could be hidden in any one of those URLs, which are drawn from 110 country-code domains, including dot-ca domains. It's not known what - if anything - the worm's creators have in mind, but they might overwhelm the Internet with spam, monitor keyboard strokes to collect passwords or banking information or delete files on a person's computer. CIRA says it is pre-emptively registering and isolating unregistered dot-ca domain names expected to be generated by the worm. Source: Breitbart
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