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Re: "Attack of the Wireless Worms"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Fri Jan 30 13:45:44 2009
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, d3e3e3@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <1028365c0901290707t6d530031i3a63368a11f6e595@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:46:27 +1300
Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> writes:
>"Recent research has shown that a new and disturbing form of computer
>infection is readily spread: the epidemic copying of malicious code
>among wireless routers without the participation of intervening
>computers. Such an epidemic could easily strike cities, where the
>ranges of wireless routers often overlap."
Does anyone know whether anything like this actually exists? I've seen
earlier work in this area that was either man-in-the-router proof-of-concept
stuff or simulation (as this work appears to be), but I don't know of any
in-the-wild mesh-network malware.
Peter.
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