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Conficker

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The infamous Conficker worm, a piece of malware that shook the cybersecurity world in 2008. Conficker exploited a vulnerability in Windows systems (MS08-067) to spread rapidly across millions of machines, from government networks to critical infrastructure.


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References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker

https://www.csl.sri.com/users/porras/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/opinion/sunday/conficker-worm-ukraine.html

https://www.csl.sri.com/users/vinod/

https://www.csl.sri.com/users/vinod/papers/Conficker/P2P/index.html

https://www.csl.sri.com/users/vinod/papers/Conficker/

https://www.techtarget.com/searchnetworking/definition/NetBIOS

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