Corporate News: Kaspersky Lab analyses new version of Kido (Conficker)
A new version of the malicious program Kido (aka Conficker and Downadup) has been detected by Kaspersky Lab; computers infected with Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Kido (aka Conficker.c) have now contacted each other over P2P, telling infected machines to download new malicious files, thus activating the Kido botnet.
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