Wednesday 15 August 2012

Help sought to crack mysterious Gauss malware payload

A string pair from the Gauss malware

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab in Russia are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to infected machines by the Gauss malware toolkit.


The warhead gets decrypted by the malware using a key composed of configuration data from the system it's targeting. But without knowing what systems it's targeting or the configuration on that system, the researchers have been unable to reproduce the key to crack the encryption.


By: Kim Zetter, Edited by: Ian Steadman


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/15/gauss-code-cracking-help

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