It seems like the hackers are trying to stay one step ahead.

Computers infected with the Conficker worm are being updated with a new variant that sidesteps an industry effort to sever the link between the worm and its hacker controllers, researchers at Symantec Corp. said Friday.

The new version, dubbed Conficker.c, represents the first set of “orders” that researchers have witnessed being sent to infected systems, said Vincent Weafer, vice president of Symantec Corp.’s security response group. The update shows that the hackers want to defend their collection of compromised PCs, Weafer argued.

They’ll trip soon enough.

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