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Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct

Posted by timothy on from the someone-needs-a-little-hanging-before-bed dept.

tsu doh nimh writes "Several news sources are reporting that the tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows systems infected with the Mydoom worm and being used in an ongoing denial of service attack against US and S. Korean government Web sites will likely have their hard drives wiped of data come Friday. From The Washington Post's Security Fix blog, the malware is 'designed to download a payload from a set of Web servers. Included in that payload is a Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system.' ChannelNews Asia carries similar information."

14 of 501 comments (clear)

  1. Apple viral marketing campaign by mokeyboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its all a plot to make people buy Mac

    1. Re:Apple viral marketing campaign by ComaVN · · Score: 5, Funny

      Over a billion people claim to believe that a 2000 year old cosmic, Jewish zombie, born of a virgin mother; will offer you eternal life if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood and telepathically accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force, present on all humans because a woman who was made from the rib of a man, who was constructed of dust, was convinced by a talking snake, to eat a cursed apple, from a magical tree growing in a mystical garden a little while after the universe was created around 6000 years ago.

      You might be right.

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  2. U ? by clang_jangle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Trojan horse program that overwrites the data on the hard drive with a message that reads "memory of the independence day," followed by as many "u" characters as it takes to write over every sector of every physical drive attached to the compromised system

    Wow, and I thought only 0 and 1 could actually be written to the hard drive.

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    1. Re:U ? by JorDan+Clock · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's why this is newsworthy.

    2. Re:U ? by jim_v2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      In South Korea, virus writes U!

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  3. Nah by copponex · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still running a huge network of unpatched XP SP1 boxes and

  4. Independence Day by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been trying to figure out whose independence day it is referring to. Based on Wikipedia, it's not Korea's (North or South) China, Japan, the US, or Russia. Nearest I can figure for Friday, July 10th is... the Bahamas?

    ...Unless it means next Friday, July 17th which celebrates South Korea's Constitution Day; the day that the Korean Constitution was proclaimed in 1948. But, no, clearly it's the Bahamas.

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  5. Man by copponex · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know you live in a fucked up country when you collectively hate the Bahamas.

    Hats off, Kim Jong-Il. That's going to be a tough one to beat.

  6. Re:Really that bad of a thing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    More likly they'll complain their kid's game broke their computer, buy a new one and continue spanking the monkey.

    There, fixed that for you.

  7. Re:first post.. by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

    since all south korean online banking is done with windows computers, friday will seriously suck.

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  8. We both missed it. by copponex · · Score: 4, Funny

    The correct joke would be:

    Everything looks fine !@#-)@^Y^)$_*^*$&@) memory of the independence dayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

    And then the lameness filter would ruin it anyway.

  9. No SC players? by Arivia · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm surprised they aren't filling the storage with "kekekekekekekekekekekeke"...

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  10. Starcraft by GF678 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The lack of any computers in South Korea still left alive to run Starcraft will cause a country-wide panic. There will be riots on the streets! Blood will run free, mark my words...

  11. Hi, I'm a Mac by chfriley · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hi, I'm a Mac, and uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...we're a PC.