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Throwback: The Malware Historian

2025/6/2
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Dan:最初,我接触恶意软件是在2004年,当时我的家用电脑感染了Sasser蠕虫。通过研究,我发现恶意软件的历史非常有趣,从最初的版权保护工具,到业余程序员展示作品的方式,再到如今的经济利益驱动和国家行为,恶意软件的演变反映了人性和社会趋势。我最喜欢的是80年代末到2000年代初的恶意软件,因为那时恶意软件的目的主要是为了推广作者的创作,病毒制作者会在病毒中留下署名,病毒组织之间还会爆发战争。随着互联网的普及,恶意软件能够迅速传播到世界各地的数百万台电脑上。如今,恶意软件背后有巨大的经济利益,因此我们看到很多威胁组织都在尽可能地赚钱。未来,我认为会出现更多类似NotPetya的攻击,因为这些网络攻击很容易掩盖其来源和目标。未来几代人回顾我们这个时代的恶意软件时,会更关注恶意软件的影响范围,而不是它的传播方式或利用的新漏洞。 Dan:在早期录制病毒视频时,我经常感到害怕,因为我不知道病毒会做什么。我只是展示这些病毒,不提供任何下载链接,并且我必须告诉那些运行了视频中的病毒导致电脑出现问题的人,我不是技术支持。很多人要求我制作他们编写的病毒的视频。我曾经开设一个论坛,制作了一个名为“观众制作恶意软件”的系列视频,但后来因为安全研究人员将其中一个勒索软件误认为是新威胁而停止了。我不确定是否应该鼓励人们将他们编写的恶意软件发送给我,或者什么都不做,看看会发生什么。我不确定如何把握教育和娱乐之间的界限。

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The episode starts by discussing the Brain virus, created in 1986 by two brothers in Pakistan as a copyright protection mechanism. It unexpectedly went viral, spreading globally and highlighting the early days of malware when the focus was less on financial gain and more on making a statement.
  • Brain virus created in 1986 by Amjad and Basit Farooq Alvi in Pakistan
  • Initially intended as copyright protection for software sold at their store
  • Spread globally via floppy disks, displaying a message with the creators' contact information
  • Marked the beginning of the history of malware

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Today malware is all nation state actors and organized crime, but in the beginning it was more about making a statement. Dan is a malware historian. He finds old hardware and viruses, runs them, and sees what happens. So we sat down to discuss the history of malware, where it's come from, and where he thinks it's going next.

Check out his amazing YouTube channel at ⁠https://www.youtube.com/user/danooct1)

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