Conficker? Has anyone seen my Conficker?

Suppose this was all just a hoax, a cleverly designed experiment in social engineering on the internet?

I’m thinking that the worm was designed to do nothing other than propogate itself and make everyone think it’s going to turn into a giant botnet.

There’s a bit of speculation that a man named Daniel Adams may be responsible or in some way associated with the writers of conficker. I guess there was evidence of the domain name trafficconverter.biz inside Conficker.A’s code. The domain is registered thusly:

Domain Name:                                 TRAFFICCONVERTER.BIZ
Domain ID:                                   D22305317-BIZ
Sponsoring Registrar:                        DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID:                303
Domain Status:                               serverHold
Registrant ID:                               DI_5540656
Registrant Name:                             Daniel Adams
Registrant Organization:                     eosads
Registrant Address1:                         13 Baterman Street
Registrant City:                             London
Registrant State/Province:                   London
Registrant Postal Code:                      W1D 3AF
Registrant Country:                          UNITED KINGDOM
Registrant Country Code:                     GB
Registrant Phone Number:                     +41.225349854
Registrant Email:                            ddarkmaster@gmail.com

With an email address that reads as “The Dark Master”, one would seriously wonder what his involvement in conficker would be. What if conficker was actually a worm to drive up website hits for sites that make money off driving traffic to other websites?

There are a lot of mentions on the internet about trafficconverter.biz hosting malware.

From looking at a lot of the technical details of how it spreads itself, it makes me wonder who the hell is running things at the U.K. Ministry of Defence since it infected their intranet and ended up on warships and submarines? Seriously, infection is easily preventable with a small amount of preventative security measures, namely a firewall. I guess there was also an outbreak at the U.K.’s House of Commons. LOL. Seriously, the governments of major world powers should be a little more careful with their technology.

There is currently a $250k reward for the capture of the conficker virus writer, issued by Microsoft. I wouldn’t mind cashing in on that, just wish I could track the guy down

You can find out more about this virus from http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org.

~ by g0thicicecream on April 1, 2009.