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Malicious Distributed Computing

Posted by michael on from the ubiquity dept.

Jeremy Erwin writes "In this whitepaper, Brandon Wiley suggests a possible design for a "superworm", a coordinated network of worm nodes. Typically worms are designed to infect as many hosts as possible, but as overly rapid growth can lead to early detection, this is a suboptimal strategy. The worm, dubbed Curious Yellow uses communication between worm nodes to ensure optimal infection rates."

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  1. That's a new Zen Koan... by Infernus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    if you meet the virus during distribution, kill it.

  2. Isn't this how many ddos attacks work now? by vasqzr · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Infect hosts, get them all in something like an IRC channel, give the signal....

  3. Curious Blue = Palladium by kritique · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just wait until that kind of worm goes out... :)