It all depends what you mean by successful, of course, but my choice would be Conficker (aka downadup), a sophisticated 2008 Windows worm that threatened mayhem before disappearing not long after ...

About 10 years ago, a worm dubbed Conficker began constructing a botnet that ran away to over 10 million Windows computers. The Conficker worm is still estimated to have potential control over as ...

It infected 10 million computers. So why did cybergeddon never arrive? Credit...Cathryn Virginia Supported by By Mark Bowden Mr. Bowden is the author of “Worm,” about the Conficker virus.

They say the old ones are the best ones. Now malware from nearly ten years ago appears to be having the last laugh, as the Conficker worm returns to aid in infecting machines with WannaCry.

The program, called Conficker, spread quickly by automatically infecting vulnerable systems. Subsequent versions of the program—especially Conficker.C, released in February 2009—spread even ...

Conficker meanwhile continued in its position as King of the Worms, remaining the most prevalent malware type and accounting for 25% of all known attacks during the period. Conficker is popular with ...

It’s been over seven years since the Conficker worm spread around the world, cracking passwords, exploiting vulnerabilities, and hijacking Windows computers into a botnet to distribute spam and ...

Conficker is the internet worm that just won't die. Nearly seven years after it was let loose on the internet, it remains one of the most encountered pieces of malware online, even if its main ...

U.K. government PCs were hit particularly hard. What made Conficker so hard to stop was that it could infect computers and distribute itself to other PCs on the same network automatically ...

Businesses are finally winning the battle against Conficker and other malware worms that exploit a vulnerability in the Windows Autorun feature, according to security researchers at Microsoft.

HERE is what thetechherald.com has to say about Conficker worm. There are three variants of Conficker. One that has infected most systems is variant B. However variant C has gained the media ...