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Coding Malware for Fun and Not for Profit (Because that would be illegal)

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A while ago some of you may remember me saying that I was so bored of there being no decent malware to reverse, that I might as well write some. Well, I decided to give it a go and I've spent some of my free time developing a Windows XP 32-bit bootkit. Now, before you get on the phone to your friendly neighborhood FBI agent, I'd like to make clear a few thing: The bootkit is written as a proof of concept, it would be very difficult to weaponize, and there is no weaponized version to fall into the hands of criminals.

For those of you who don't know, a bootkit is a type of rootkit that begins executing at boot time. By infecting the BIOS, Master Boot Record, Volume Boot Record or Initial Program Loader; Malware can begin execution early on in the operating system boot process, way before the OS is loaded.

read more.....http://www.malwaretech.com/2014/04/coding-malware-for-fun-and-not-for.html

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