Topic: Meet 'Rakshasa,' Undetectable And Incurable Malware Infection (Read 1077 times)

HawkEye · « **on:** July 28, 2012, 08:17:19 pm »

Oh dear!, where will it all end

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/07/26/meet-rakshasa-the-malware-infection-designed-to-be-undetectable-and-incurable/#more-7293

"Malicious software, like all software, gets smarter all the time. In recent years it’s learned to destroy physical infrastructure, install itself through Microsoft updates, and use human beings as physical “data mules,” for instance. But researcher Jonathan Brossard has innovated a uniquely nasty coding trick: A strain of malware that’s nearly impossible to disinfect."