Old Worm Digs New Dirt At Pentagon

ColdWetDog writes "Remember the Agent.BTZ worm that caused significant problems at military installations back in 2008? Now, three years after what the Pentagon called the most significant breach of US military networks ever, new versions of the malware blamed for the attack are still roiling US networks."

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malware infiltrated computer systems?

[Anonymous Coward]

"The malware at issue, known as "agent.btz," infiltrated the computer systems of the U.S. Central Command in 2008" link

Don't you mean someone opened an attachment in Microsoft Exchange or clicked on a URL in Microsoft Internet Explorer, or plugged a USB device into a computer running Microsoft Windows.

Name : Worm:W32/Agent.BTZ

Category: Malware

Type: Worm

Platform: W32 link

Proprietary hardware

[Trilobyte]

The government should go back to running on DEC Alphas and Data General mainframes. Mark Microsoft technology as export-only.

Ratcheting the fear for the masses

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone care to speculate on the end game for this build up of global "cyberwar/cybercrime" activity covered by the press?

Re:Ratcheting the fear for the masses

[Tx]

Press gets bored of over-hyping insignificant malware events, as signs of imminent cyber-apocalypse stubbornly fail to materialise, moves on to something more interesting?

Re:Ratcheting the fear for the masses

[Charliemopps]

The government grants themselves even more power to circumvent the constitution while passing legislation absolving businesses from any legal mandate to secure themselves from what is clearly an unstoppable army of cyber criminals?