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Microsoft has announced today that it will award $250 grand large to anyone who provides a tip that successfully identifies the author of the industrious Conficker worm.
Potentially the most crippling malware thus far conceived, the Conficker worm has infected some 10 million PCs to date. Each PC polls 250 random domains a day in search of a malware payload that has yet to appear. Should a payload be released to one of the domains, the PCs will download and install the package to create the biggest bot or spam net in history.
While services like OpenDNS are using information gleaned from reverse engineering to proactively prevent the worm’s spread, it still represents a tremendous threat. Knowing the gravity of the situation, Microsoft has resurrected its Anti-Virus Reward Program which has been virtually dormant since a $250k payout in 2003 that brought the authors of the SoBig and Sasser worms to justice.
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