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Trend Micro mentioning a possible connection between Conficker and Waledac:

DOWNAD/Conficker Watch: New Variant in The Mix?

Quote:

Another interesting thing we also noticed was that the Downad/Conficker box was trying to access a known Waledac domain (goodnewsdigital(dot)com) and download yet another encrypted file.

Another one from the same article:

Conficker-Waledac connection? Possible, but we still have to dig deeper into this…

Good to see guys with knowledge speculate about this.

I speculated about it a few months ago.
In addition to connections between Asprox, Waledac and Storm.

It will be interesting to see what the heavyweight guys dig up.
I look forward to it.
All those names on the botnets is one thing that confuses a simple mind.
Much easier to lump them together in one bag.

I've already labeled them the easy way: Criminals.