The world's most expensive and long-lived malware — MyDoom

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Greetings!

Today I’ll tell you a bit about a very interesting piece of malware called Mydoom, which has been operating on the internet since the ancient year of 2004.

MyDoom is a worm created to infect operating systems of the Windows family. The worm spreads via emails with malicious attachments, and the infection itself occurs when they are opened.

The size of the worm’s carrier file is about 28 kilobytes. During research into MyDoom, a text string was found inside its code: « sync-1.01; andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry ». Quite ironic and businesslike.

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The world's most expensive and long-lived malware — MyDoom