Chinese Virus Wins the Space Race
Posted on August 28, 2008
Filed Under China Hackers, China Internet, China Online Games, Malware, Security |
vnunet reports:
A computer virus has made it onto the International Space Station (ISS), but Nasa says there is no danger to critical systems.
Nasa has confirmed that a computer on the ISS has been infected by the Gammima.AG. virus, which tries to steal login names and passwords to popular online games like Maple Story, HuangYi Online and Talesweaver.
It is not yet known how the virus got on board but the likely culprit is a USB drive taken up by one of the astronauts. All data traffic streamed direct to the station comes from Nasa uplink stations and is heavily screened before being sent into orbit.
I call for an American virus to be on the moon in ten years.
Symantec’s Gammima description.
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