$250,000 Bounty for Conficker Worm Creator

Microsoft is offering a $250,000 bounty for anyone that could provide information for the capture of the author/s of the conficker worm that affected Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows XP SP3.

Microsoft sees the conficker worm as a criminal attack — “Microsoft has deemed the Conficker worm as nothing short of a criminal attack, and considers the reward a stem to this scenario. The company indicated that residents of any country worldwide are eligible for getting the $250,000, as long as they lead international law enforcement agencies to the author of Conficker. In the past, the software giant revealed that the worm was designed not to infect computers with the Ukrainian keyboard layout, which could be an indication that its creator was Ukrainian.”

The company has already teamed up with various organizations to fight the worm which includes: ICANN, NeuStar, VeriSign, CNNIC, Afilias, Public Internet Registry, Global Domains International Inc., M1D Global, AOL, Symantec, F-Secure, ISC, researchers from Georgia Tech, the Shadowserver Foundation, Arbor Networks and Support Intelligence.

Source: Softpedia