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Which TDL Version finally evolves into SkyNet?
Jul 7 2011, 8:05 PM EDT
Is The New TDL-4 Botnet Really 'Indestructible?'An elusive malware program has quietly co-opted more than four million PCs, and no one seems to know how to stop it. What is TDL-4? TDL-4 is the fourth generation of the TDL malware (Kapersky also identifies the family as TDSS), and Golovanov and Soumenkov call it “the most sophisticated threat today.” In that, we can likely agree with them. TDL-4 packs all kinds of neat/scary tricks to conceal itself deep within hard drives, evading most virus scanning software as well as more proactive detection methods. It communicates in encrypted code, and contains a serious rootkit component--a rootkit being a program that allows an operator access to a computer even while hiding itself from the user, network administrators and automated security measures. TDL-4 isn't one itself, but it's malicious because it facilitates the creation of a botnet--a network of infected computers that can be used in concert to carry out tasks like distributed denial-of-service attacks (which have been used to take down many major servers, including The Pirate Bay, Twitter, Facebook, and MasterCard.com), the installation of adware and spyware, or spamming. It currently has 4.5 million machines under its control and counting. The infecting file is usually found lurking around adult sites, pirated media hubs, and video and media storage sites... “We have reason to believe that TDSS will continue to evolve,” they write. “The fact that TDL-4 code shows active development — a rootkit for 64-bit systems, the malware running prior to operating system start launches, the use of exploits from Stuxnet’s arsenal, P2P technology, its own ‘antivirus’ and a lot more — place TDSS firmly in the ranks of the most technologically sophisticated, and most complex to analyze, malware.” That is, until TDL-5. http://www.popsci.com/node/55242/?cmpid=enews070711 Do you find this valuable? |
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