Raising the bar for vicious malware success
This is comforting, now we learn that the "Downadup" worm is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. The people who created this disaster-waiting-to-happen are expert programmers with a great deal of experience writing malware. We can see the detail of their skill in the code they have turned loose on the web, but we still don't know what this thing is supposed to do. And apparently these criminals are looking over their shoulders for other bad guys who would like to steal their wonderful new botnet.
The worm that has infected millions of Windows PCs is a "very well-engineered" piece of malware, according to one security expert. But researchers still have no clear idea what the hackers plan to do with the collection of computers they've compromised with "Downadup.""This is a very well-engineered piece of software," said Alfred Huger, vice president of development at Symantec Corp.'s security response group. "It's very well thought out. Whoever wrote it, it's not their first time writing malware. It looks as if the author has had a great deal of experience writing software, and is fully versed in writing network-level code."
