Worm: The First Digital World War

Worm tells the true story of Conficker, a global cyber threat that infected millions of computers and the experts who united to fight its hidden danger.

In November 2008, a mysterious computer worm known as Conficker began spreading at an unprecedented pace. Within a month it had infected 1.5 million machines across 195 countries. Banks, telecom networks, government systems, even the British Parliament and the French and German military, were compromised. By January 2009, Conficker had burrowed into at …