Are you and your system is a part of a Skynet and Firesale which can probabaly take down the human race?…
Skynet and Firesale! Wondering what I’m talking about a review of Termionator’s Judgmental day or Bruce Willis – Die Hard 4.0. Then you are some what wrong. Trying to provide you all an update about the Fool’s day Aka aka Conficker worm.
What is a Skynet?
Skynet is a fictional, computer-based military defense system and a concept that is established and frequently mentioned in the Terminator series of films and games. It is a fictional example of an artificial intelligence that becomes sentient, and turns on its creators. Skynet is the main antagonist in the Terminator series
What is a Cyber Firesale?
Potentially devastating consequences of an electronic attack, especially when used in conjunction with or as a precursor to a physical attack. It may be just that cyber attack that enables the physical attack. Just like our combined sea, air and land battle plans, ‘cyber’ is a core component.
This type of hysteria we are having to going have to deal with every decade. Remember Y2K?
Conficker, also known as Downadup or Kido, first appeared last November, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system. Conficker is an aggressive worm that has crawled into millions of machines probabdly by now 7-10 million of computers.
Conficker has variants from A to E.
Variants A, B, C and E exploit a vulnerability in the Server Service on Windows computers, in which an already-infected source computer uses a specially-crafted RPC request to force a buffer overflow and execute shellcode on the target computer.
Variants B and C can remotely execute copies of themselves through the ADMIN$ share on computers visible over NetBIOS. If the share is password-protected, a dictionary attack is attempted.
Variants B and C place a copy of their DLL form on any attached removable media (such as USB flash drives), from which they can then infect new hosts through the Windows AutoRun mechanism.
Payload Propagation of Conficker:
Variant A payloads are first SHA1-hashed and RC4-encrypted with the 512-bit hash as a key. Variants B, C and E perform in-memory patches to NetBIOS-related DLLs to close MS08-067 and watch for re-infection attempts through the same vulnerability. Variants D and E create an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network to push and pull payloads over the wider Internet.
To check is your system infected with Conficker follow the Eye Chart of ConfickerWorkingGroup.
Microsoft has released a removal guide for the worm, and recommends using the current release of its Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool to remove the worm, then applying the patch to prevent re-infection.
Third-party anti-virus software vendors have released detection updates to their products and are able to remove the worm.
Automated remote detection:
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) recommends disabling AutoRun to prevent Variant B of the worm from spreading through removable media. Prior to the release of Microsoft knowledgebase article KB967715.
If hackers can control all the infected systems all around the world imagine the magnitude of the attack. This can make the Skyenet or Cyber Firesale quite possible.
Will you allow other to control you system and take down the internet infrastructure and will effect the human race.
Till Bruce Willis comes to bring this Skynet down keep you system safe with latest updates of windows and anti-virus, anti-malwares products. Use original products and kill privacy 
Tags: Cyber Firesale, Firesale, Skynet
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