Submission + - Conficker Group: We failed to curb infections (threatpost.com)
chicksdaddy writes: A new report from the Conficker Working Group concludes that coordinated efforts to stomp out the botnet were a mixed bag: helping to thwart the worm's efforts to register Web domains that it used to spread, while failing to stamp out infections on Windows computers, Threatpost reports. The "lessons learned" report released this month analyzes the fruits of a two year-old effort by a consortium of security firms, ISPs and top level domain (TLD) operators to battle variants of the Conficker worm. The group became a model of how to respond to and slow the spread of fast-moving, modern malware. However, the Conficker Working Group said it largely failed in its efforts to disinfect computers and eliminate the threat of the botnet. Millions of Conficker infected PCs remain. A larger, more permanent private-public partnership may be needed to focus on a "long term battle," rather than ad-hoc efforts to quash specific threats, the report concluded.
