Over 100 million yen 'notebook PC infected with the 6 most dangerous malware in the world' is being auctioned
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The Persistence Of Chaos
https://thepersistenceofchaos.com/
A laptop filled with six of the world's most dangerous viruses is on sale for more than $ 1 million-The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/25/18638308/laptop-viruses-malware-auction-persistence-of-chaos-guo-o-dong
According to an interview with Guo O Dong of the news site The Verge, the reason for stuffing malware into laptops was 'to make the abstract threat that exists in the digital world physically.'
Guo O Dong says, 'This weird idea of shaping what happens with the computer (malware infection) as something that doesn't really affect us is a foolish thing.' 'It affects the power grid and public infrastructure A weaponized virus can cause direct damage, 'he says, and' malware ', which is a major threat in modern society, is turned into a work of art without harm.
This is 'The Persistence of Chaos'. What is being used is the 2008 Samsung laptop 'NC10-14GB', and the installed OS is Windows XP SP3.
The malware that the notebook PC is infected with is a worm ' ILOVEYOU ' that has been rampant all over the world while repeating self-proliferation discovered in 2000, and ' MyDoom ' that sends a virus as an attached file in mail, 2003 In addition to ' SoBig ' which can transmit a message from an infected computer to another terminal via the e-mail that appeared in the year via e-mail, ' Dark Tequila ', a financial malware that intimidated mainly in Mexico 2013 ......
'BlackEnergy', a malware used for cyber attacks on power companies in 2015
1.4 million households lose power due to cyber attack on power companies-GIGAZINE
Six of Ransomware's 'WannaCry', which encrypts files on the PC to make it inaccessible to users, and requires ransom to hostage data. These six malware have caused a total of $ 95 billion (about 10 trillion yen) in monetary damages worldwide.
File encryption, ransom demand 'WannaCry' rushes into an abnormal situation where emergency patch is distributed to Windows XP in the global epidemic, present condition & countermeasure summary-GIGAZINE
'The Persistence of Chaos' is being delivered as it works on Twitch at the time of writing.
Persistence Chaos-Twitch
Guo O Dong points out that, in particular, WannaCry shows how physically a digital attack would cause harm, 'WannaCry is estimated at $ 100 million for National Health Service in the United Kingdom (approximately 11 billion yen ) It caused considerable damage, and tens of thousands of medical treatment reservations were canceled. 'It is no exaggeration to say that this has caused serious personal injury, and it is precisely to identify the damage suffered by individual patients. It's a difficult level. '
In addition, 'The Persistence of Chaos' created by Guo O Dong was put on the Internet auction at the time of writing. At the time of writing the article was bid for $ 1.2 million (about 130 million yen) and the bidding deadline is around 18:00 on May 27, 2019.
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