Korean DDoS Bots To Self-Destruct 501
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."
Final code (Score:1, Funny)
0 0 0 Destruct 0
first post.. (Score:3, Funny)
Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:5, Funny)
U ? (Score:4, Funny)
Wow, and I thought only 0 and 1 could actually be written to the hard drive.
Re:U ? (Score:5, Funny)
Nah (Score:5, Funny)
I'm still running a huge network of unpatched XP SP1 boxes and
Independence Day (Score:5, Funny)
...Unless it means next Friday, July 17th which celebrates South Korea's Constitution Day; the day that the Korean Constitution was proclaimed in 1948. But, no, clearly it's the Bahamas.
Man (Score:5, Funny)
You know you live in a fucked up country when you collectively hate the Bahamas.
Hats off, Kim Jong-Il. That's going to be a tough one to beat.
Re:Really that bad of a thing? (Score:5, Funny)
More likly they'll complain their kid's game broke their computer, buy a new one and continue spanking the monkey.
There, fixed that for you.
Re:first post.. (Score:5, Funny)
We both missed it. (Score:5, Funny)
The correct joke would be:
Everything looks fine !@#-)@^Y^)$_*^*$&@) memory of the independence dayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
And then the lameness filter would ruin it anyway.
Re:Really that bad of a thing? (Score:1, Funny)
Well, fuck you and your grandma. My grandma runs Linux, and so could yours, but nooooo, she decided to learn it the hard way.
No SC players? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:U ? (Score:1, Funny)
I wouldn't expect either of the linked articles to know binary. It probably is "U", meaning just a repeating 010101010101010101........ Makes the most sense given the structure of hard drives and the fact that a repeated sequence of "u" after "memory of the independence day" (assuming that comma is also not part of it) makes no sense from any point of view.
Poppycock. Of course it makes sense. They're trying to use up all the 'U's on the internet!
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:3, Funny)
What are you saying? You're not saying... ?
But... but... that CAN'T be true.
You just shut up. I still get my presents each year.
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:4, Funny)
A big, fat guy with a long beard that gives kids presents after they sat on his lap.
Is it me or is something not quite right there?
Re:U ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:2, Funny)
So know you are saying he lied when he said, "That's just a big lollipop in my pants"?
Re:And something of value was gained? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:5, Funny)
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.
You might be right.
Starcraft (Score:5, Funny)
The lack of any computers in South Korea still left alive to run Starcraft will cause a country-wide panic. There will be riots on the streets! Blood will run free, mark my words...
Re:And something of value was gained? (Score:3, Funny)
Then we can nuke his BIOS! From orbit, preferably.
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:3, Funny)
The taste should have given it away...
Hi, I'm a Mac (Score:5, Funny)
Hi, I'm a Mac, and uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...we're a PC.
Re:U ? (Score:3, Funny)
In Soviet Trojan, hard drive is overwritten by "U"!
Re:first post.. (Score:4, Funny)
since all south korean online banking is done with windows computers, friday will seriously suck.
Hmmm, maybe we've been a bit hasty in judging these bot-writers... anything which provides some incentive for korean websites to change that crap can't be all bad...
Perhaps the dear-leader is just showing a bit of tough love?
Friday? Friday! (Score:3, Funny)
> Posted by timothy on Fri 10 Jul 01:41AM
> hard drives wiped of data come Friday.
NOW you tell me?!
Re:Starcraft (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Friday? Friday! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:2, Funny)
Work in the phrase "My savior has two daddies" somewhere in there and it'll be absolutely perfect.
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:3, Funny)
And he knows when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, and he comes down the chimney 'cause he knows usually people forget to secure that.
That old geezer scares me.
Re:first post.. (Score:3, Funny)
You know, I got killed by a Romanian last month....
Oh, oops, it was a computer intrusion. I opened up a port without confirming that everything inside was properly secured.
Sorry, they're so similar sorts of things, I just got confused.
Re:first post.. (Score:3, Funny)
Hey now, let's be fair here. The South Koreans can't all take a monopoly on ignorant users.
I'm pretty sure the average user in the US is far more ignorant! Hell, at least in S. Korea, you get people rolling their eyes. Over here, you might be lucky if the person in question has a glazed-over look while drooling slightly.
Re:Apple viral marketing campaign (Score:3, Funny)
Talking about "facts" in the context of jewish zombies, born of virgin mothers, is a bit laughable.
Especially when all you have to back it up is a lamb that was slaughtered and had it's blood put on the doorposts of a house to save it's occupants from the angel of death in Egypt. Yeah, right.
And now excuse me while I go slaughter a lamb. These goddamn death angels are all over the place here on Saturdays, time to take action.