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VP and chief architect, Cisco's Security Business Group

Video tutorial: What is Conficker?

Opinion
Feb 27, 20141 min

Learn more about the history of this unusually successful malware

Today’s advanced malware threats are capable of changing behavior to block attempts to discover and remove them from systems. One of the most successful examples of malware deploying these techniques in recent years was Conficker.

Conficker was an unusually successful piece of malware that first surfaced in November 2008. It exploited a vulnerability in Windows server operating systems and went on to infect millions of systems in more than 200 countries around the world.

Between November 2008 and April 2009, five variations of Conficker were discovered. While each variant included updates to infection vectors, updating methods, or self-defense, only the final version was designed to do more than merely accumulate infections.

Watch the video below to learn more about Conficker.

martin_roesch
VP and chief architect, Cisco's Security Business Group

Martin Roesch founded Sourcefire in 2001 where he was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and a member of its Board of Directors. He is now vice president and chief architect for Cisco's Security Business Group. For more than a decade, Roesch has dedicated himself to developing intelligent network security tools and technologies to address evolving threats, applying his knowledge of network security to network threat analytics and network forensics for numerous government and multinational customers. A respected authority on intrusion prevention and detection technology and forensics, he is the author and lead developer of the Snort Intrusion Prevention and Detection System (www.snort.org) that forms the foundation for the Sourcefire Next-Generation IPS. For more than a decade, Roesch has dedicated himself to developing intelligent network security tools and technologies to address evolving threats, applying his knowledge of network security to network threat analytics and network forensics for numerous government and multinational customers. Roesch holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University.

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