May 28th, 2014

How to take down the entire Internet with this one weird trick, according to Crisis

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

According to the television documentary Crisis which aired on NBC last Sunday, a cyberattack took over the entire Internet.

Timecode 13:00: “Anything connected to the Internet. Banking systems, power grid, air traffic control, emergency services. The virus has spread into them all.”

And the show includes an amazing journalistic scoop: A screen shot of the attack being launched! Timecode 11:40:

文件上传
 
Threads Progress Remaining Speed
0:000> u eip-30 eip+20
notepad+0x5cfc:
01005cfc 0001            add     [ecx],al
01005cfe 3bc7            cmp     eax,edi
01005d00 7407            jz      notepad+0x5d09 (01005d09)
01005d02 50              push    eax
01005d03 ff15dc100001    call    dword ptr [notepad+0x10dc (010010dc)]
01005d09 8b45fc          mov     eax,[ebp-0x4]
01005d0c 57              push    edi
01005d0d 57              push    edi
01005d0e 68c50000        push    0xc5

That’s right, my friends. This elite virus that shut down the Internet was an upload of Notepad!

 

Category
Old New Thing
Topics
Non-Computer

Author

Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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