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Open Source Evil
by Andrew McCaskey
The Real Cornficker
It’s not about training, but that’s the real by-product. I suspect that the Cornficker worm – primed and ready to go off April 1st has been put together for blackmail or economic reasons. The educational factors are the unintended consequence that are probably more so than the present variant that’s supposedly to explode in less than ten days.
The worm started as a mundane example – targeted at the systems with ignorant or lazy owners, with an attack vector that had already been closed by the sysops that were on the ball. Version B was the step to the big leagues, adding peer-to-peer functionality, disabling firewall protection, and running a variable command and control system from a list of domains.
Version C of Conficker amp’ed it up and extended peer to peer, with digital code-signing, so it only accepts trusted code updates from itself. That means security experts can’t simply inject code to neutralize it.
The big danger April 1st is not what happens – it is the fact that malware authors are watching and learning.. It’s been termed evil open source.
I don’t think that’s the primary motivation – there is too much into this thing for an inverted altruism to be in play. Just follow the money, and see what’s for hire April 2nd.
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