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

Raymond Chen

May 28th, 20140 0

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!

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

Raymond Chen

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