VENITISM: MAHDI VIRUS ATTACKS MOSTLY IRANIAN COMPUTERS

Governments and gangs realize malware is much cheaper than mainstream warfare.
Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming designed to
disrupt operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or
exploitation, gain unauthorized access to system resources, and other abusive
behavior. Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware,
dishonest adware, scareware, crimeware, rootkits, and other malicious and
unwanted software or program. In law, malware is sometimes known as computer
contaminant.

Israeli Seculert and Russian Kaspersky have identified thousand Mahdi virus
victims. Mahdi keeps running, which implies that Mahdi's operators are not
worried about getting caught.

Malware makers can hide their tracks using spoofing, VPNs, proxy services, and
other means to make it look like they are based in any number of countries -
when in truth they are somewhere completely different.

Stuxnet targeted Iran's nuclear program in 2010. After that customer-built virus
was uncovered by a security researcher in Belarus, authorities in Iran
discovered it in a uranium enrichment facility.

Occident has developed electronic weapons that could be used to defend the West
against cyber attacks or prevent them. Occident is prepared to strike first in a
cyber conflict. Cyber arms grow out of control. No government can guarantee it
can protect a country or entity against cyber attack. In future wars, there will
be a cyber element. Countries hope that if they threaten to use missiles to
retaliate against a cyber attack, others will think twice about launching one.

Mahdi is a less professional operation that runs on technology built with widely
available software. If the quality of your operation is not that high, then
maybe you don't care about being discovered. Mahdi lets remote attackers steal
files from infected PCs and monitor emails as well as instant messages. It can
also record audio, log keystrokes, and take screen shots of activity on those
computers.

Targets of Mahdi include critical infrastructure firms, financial services
firms, and government embassies located in five Middle Eastern countries, with
the majority of the infections in Iran. The campaign is being run by
hactivists, who are either funded by a government or provide information they
collect to a nation for ideological reasons.

Internet security firms make more money when people are more scared of malware,
and Eugene Kaspersky declares that cyber terrorism can bring the end of
civilization! A global Internet blackout and crippling attacks against key
infrastructure are among two possible cyber-pandemics. Kaspersky is afraid cyber
terrorism is just beginning. Very soon, many countries around the world will
know it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Kaspersky hoodwinks it will be the end of
the world as we know it!

Kaspersky hoodwinks the evolution from cyber war to cyber terrorism comes from
the indiscriminate nature of cyber weapons. Very much like a modern-day
Pandora's Box, Flame and other forms of malware cannot be controlled upon
release. Faced with a replicating threat that knows no national boundaries,
cyber weapons can take down infrastructure around the world, hurting scores of
innocent victims along the way.

Source: http://venitism.blogspot.com/2012/08/mahdi-virus-attacks-mostly-iranian.html

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