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If it weren't for the 11k process fork bomb, I wonder how much longer it would have taken for folks to notice and cut this off.
by cdcarter 6mo ago
If it weren't for the 11k process fork bomb, I wonder how much longer it would have taken for folks to notice and cut this off.
- intothemild 6mo agoThats the thing, i noticed it almost instantly when trying to install a package that depended on it, as soon as it started, it hard locked my laptop, didn't get to infect it.. but if they had slowed down that fork bomb.. it would have done more damage.
- ddp26 6mo agoYeah, and this is a pattern I saw in the Fancy Bear Goes Fishing book, a lot of discovery of malware is either pure luck, or blunders from the malware developers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear_Goes_Phishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Bear_Goes_Phishing
- yaur 6mo agoThis generation's internet worm?
- jamiemallers 6mo ago[dead]