Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct

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."

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Soulja Boy Tellem Payload

[psicop]

f(x)=u^U

Crank that.

Shirts!

[binaryseraph]

I'm making that a tee shirt.
"memory of the independence day, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Re:Really that bad of a thing?

[EdIII]

You have to imagine if these computers are all infected with this one trojan, they are probably infected with god only knows how much other spyware, malware, backdoors, and spambots. This might just be a GOOD thing; when my friends and family wake up to a completely wiped drive, it might be the thing that drives my 89yr old grandmother to read up on computer security a little bit, perhaps switch to a more secure browser, buy a router with a hardware firewall, etc. Not to mention, it will also wipe out all of their pictures, tax returns, email and other important documents.

There fixed that for you.

Why don't you just wish them to total their car so that they can be forced to buy a newer, more fuel efficient car.

I wish that every single day. There is nothing more I hate then to be behind some pos car throwing out noxious fumes in traffic. Most of them have faked smog reports, because lets face it, there is no WAY some of those cars can pass a smog check. I know of plenty of mechanic friends in the past that would look the other way for 40$. Some of then even feel bad for these people since they can't afford to actually fix the car and get it passing a smog check, and will be seriously harmed if they don't have a car to get to work. 4 kids, barely making it, you know the sad story.

I do understand the emotion and compassion that you are trying to convey. It is misplaced. If you want to keep with the car analogy, these people that are driving a total POS are:

1) Polluting our air.
2) Dinging our cars in the parking lot, because they don't care. Primer is good enough for them, it should be good enough for us.
3) Stealing our gas when they get five seconds alone with our car.
4) Using the streets as their own personal wastebasket for cigarette butts, happy meal boxes, and bubble gum.
5) Loaning out their car on demand to complete losers that use it for drive by's to kill 9 year olds, rape 89 year old women, and steal lollipops from little kids.

Sounds harsh I know, but people that have infected unsecured computer systems are doing exactly that on the Internet. They are the reason why system administrators have to fight so damn hard to get rid of spam. Why we need redundant and expensive systems to cope with DDOS attacks. Why it so hard to track down the real people behind these actions.

I do feel for these people, and I even know people that have lost considerable amounts of personal data due to this bullshit. It's sad, really sad. However, the Internet and the rest of us are better off, when they finally get FOOBARd'. Otherwise, we have to wish for them to continue doing exactly what they are doing while probably being:

1) Ultimately harmed themselves more than the loss of data could ever do. Identity theft, stolen money from bank accounts, fraud, etc.
2) Used to do the same to others.
3) To compromise businesses for considerably more amounts of money.

If it takes their complete destruction to open their eyes to possibility they at least need to find somebody to help with their own security, or handle their own, it may be worth doing so. Your compassion, while understandable and admirable, is really just wishing to keep the status quo in their little world, as if they are not being harmed already.

Every child has to fall and scrape their knees when finally learning to walk and run. It's just part of life and growing up.

Re:Apple viral marketing campaign

[treksta]

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...

This has to be a big, Jewish joke. They own in comedy; it's been proven. The way you just laid it out, it's apparent that one day, some of them took many of the myths from around the region, put them in a hat, shook it up, picked out a dozen or so and said to each other, "Let's see how many schmucks we can get to believe this nonsense!" Holy crap it worked! Attack of the Jewish zombies!

Re:Really that bad of a thing?

[howlingmadhowie]

absolutely wrong. if you're going to buy and use a computer, you should learn about it and how to use it safely. if not, you don't get to blame the programmers when something goes wrong.

Re:Apple viral marketing campaign

[Critical Facilities]

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.

Single funniest run-on sentence EVER!! Thank you, sir, for the laugh. That was great!