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."

Comments

WOW

[someone1234]

Actually it does something useful.
This will teach all negligent users to actually defend against zombifying.
One of my colleagues says, he wouldn't care if his machine is a zombie as long as it doesn't slow the machine significantly.

Brainwashing is in the eye of the beholder

[SL Baur]

I would even say they are still obsessed and paranoid about the U.S attacking any minute. There are a lot of mentally unstable and brainwashed people in North Korea.

You could say the same thing with s/U.S/terrorists/ and s/North Korea/US/. Brainwashing is in the eye of the beholder...

"We had to bomb that village in order to save it"

"This is NOT an invasion of Cambodia"

"The US is too big to be governed by a single office" (Oh and please reelect me anyway)

"Read my lips, no new taxes"

"I did not have sex with that woman, MS Lewinsky"

"Mission Accomplished!"

"If elected, I'll start withdrawing troops from Iraq in March"

It's truly amazing what sort of brainwashing some people will accept.