Recent DDoS Piggybacks Pernicious Payload
News, late last week, of the botnet fueled DDoS attack, apparently contains piggybacked malevolent code – bent on the ‘destruction’ of infected PCs. Not surprising, based on vector… More information, including a short snippet, gleaned from Thomas Claburn’s well written piece in InformationWeeks appears after the jump.
From InformationWeek’s Thomas Claburn: “Cyber Attack Code Starts Killing Infected PCs“
“The botnet-driven cyber attack on government, financial, and media sites in the U.S and South Korea includes a newly discovered danger: The malicious code responsible for driving the distributed denial of service attack, known as W32.Dozer, is designed to delete data on infected computers and to prevent the computers from being rebooted. “Your machine is completely hosed at this stage,” said Vincent Weafer, VP at Symantec Security Response. The malicious code includes instructions to start deleting files when the infected computer’s internal clock reaches July 10, 2009. That’s today…”
- Lazy Hacker and Little Worm Set Off a Cyberwar Frenzy (wired.com)
- U.S., South Korean cyber attacks no more harmful than spam, experts say (cbc.ca)
- Korean cyber attack to vaporize computer data (cbc.ca)
- After US, cyber attacks hit South Korea (guardian.co.uk)
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