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Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware
An anonymous reader writes: Two open-source libraries used in the Mars Rover software have been integrated in the source code of a malware family (nicknamed Rover) used as part of a cyber-espionage campaign against the Indian government (Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan). The two libraries are OpenCV and OpenAL, two libraries for processing image and audio information. As such, the Rover malware can take screenshots, record video and audio.
because this isn't one.
What sensationalist BS. It's using standard libraries open to anyone, nothing unique to the mars rover.
Why not say that it links against libc and that it uses "Nuclear Reactor Code!!11!" in its malware.
The "C" programming language, used in Linux, FreeBSD and Python, has been used to construct ________.
Really? OpenCV was used for something? I fail to see how this has any connection to the Mars rover.
And you should feel bad
Chemical given to children used to create nuclear bombs!
H2O, sometimes known as "water", is given to children. It also has uses in industrial factories as a cleanser and is even used as a shielding for nuclear reactors. This chemical, which has been refereed to as the "universal solvent" has been known to be used during the making of nuclear bombs.
Youths have been spotty spraying each other with this solvents as a game. Film at 11.
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Mars Rover Code Used For Cyber-Espionage Malware
Hey, whipslash, where are you? This is the kind of shitty misleading click-bait none of us want to see.
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