full-disclosure - Re: Big up to torpig authors

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Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:53:10 +0100
From: John Lamb <full-disclosure@...njam.com>
To: Full-Disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Cc: full-disclosure <Full-Disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Big up to torpig authors

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 02:23:38PM -0400, T Biehn wrote:
> "A recent update to this algorithm is particularly interesting.
> Similarly to the previous version, the new algorithm uses the current
> date to generate the drive-by-download domain. However, the new
> algorithm also relies on search trends from Twitter to generate one
> additional seed byte."
> 
> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/index.html

Unfortunately for them a competing virus has seriously reduced the
entropy of their source - "Swine Flu" has been sitting at the top of the
list for days now...

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