State of the art in malware owning human?

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Thu Oct 22 11:40:04 PDT 2015


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On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:05:53 +0300
Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:

> What is the state of the art in malware owning the human, not just the
> box?
> ...or DoS the human, making them inoperable.

I seem to recall a raid on an epilepsy support forum, where various animated images were spammed all over the message threads.  No hard data on the results that I know of.

> According to Solntsev, one computer virus capable of affecting a
> person's psyche is Russian Virus 666. It manifests itself in every 25th
> frame of a visual display, where it produces a combination of colors

It sounds a little like the basilisk hacks in _Eclipse Phase_.  Skeptical cat is skeptical.

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