Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines. Conficker, which takes ...

(AP) -- The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, will start ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It's unclear whether ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of personal computers, will start ramping up its efforts today to use those machines for cybercrimes. It's ...

This story was written by CNET's Elinor Mills. The Conficker worm that has infected millions of Windows-based computers will likely be used to send spam and steal data much like one of the nastiest ...

Come April 1, the latest version of Conficker, the malicious computer worm that has infected millions of computers in the creation of a global botnet, is set to launch a new update mechanism that will ...

There has been a big break in the Conficker worm that threatens to activate and cause a lot of havoc on April 1: German researchers at the Honeynet Project have been able to fingerprint the malware on ...

Remember the Conficker botnet? It's still out there, lurking, waiting, dreaming like Cthulhu, as mysterious and deadly as it was last spring when the *New York Times *called it an "unthinkable ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday -- April Fools' Day.

April 1 has come and gone, and the Internet has not disintegrated and no major cyber-attacks were reported. But Conficker still remains a threat. Now don’t panic, this doesn’t mean cyber-Armageddon ...

An ominous computer worm today could cause major network outages, siphon personal information from millions and attack government networks. It also could do nothing at all. The worm, known as ...

Security researchers have updated a free tool that sniffs out the notorious Conficker worm on infected PCs by using the same peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol the malware relies on to communicate with its ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, will start ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It's unclear ...