full-disclosure - [inbox] malware added in transit

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From: purdy at tecman.com (Curt Purdy)
Subject: [inbox] malware added in transit

Paul  wrote:

 > Hi all, perhaps I'm way off-base but I've been under the impression that
malware can be added
 >  to clean transmissions as they pass through infected nodes.  Is this
possible?

 Unless you're talking about inserting a proxy in-line and manually grabbing
the packets and manipulating them at a huge amount of work, you ARE way
off-base.  There is no malware I know of that would even know what the
packets were, muchless re-assemble them into the original document, insert
itself, and pass it on.  Maybe by 2104...

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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