Monday, March 3, 2014

20th Century was Nuclear Threat from nations; 21st Century is Malware from Nation States




We better  get used to these types of headlines.   
Well, you can figure out the reason

G Data bases its case for Russian government involvement on the complexity of the malware and the presence of Cyrillic words in the malware sample

Uroburos is a rootkit made of two files, "a driver and an encrypted virtual file system," that can "take control of an infected computer, execute arbitrary commands, and hide system activities." The malware is highly dangerous, MN alleges, because its structure is "modular" and "flexible," meaning that new malicious functions can be added to it easily.

The link below has more details:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57619748-83/security-firm-claims-russian-government-makes-malware

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