[LINK] British researcher finds a 'kill switch' for global cyber attack

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Mon May 15 10:31:22 AEST 2017


On 15/05/17 10:25, Paul Bolger wrote:
> The next one will have the kill switch encrypted.

I think it was discovered by watching the network traffic from an 
infected computer - the investigator would have noticed the DNS lookup 
requests for the magic domain. You can't encrypt that.


Hamish



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