| R. Slade. Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses, pages 8, 53--54, 454, 1994. SpringerVerlag. |
....Trojan nonetheless exhibits traits similar to that of a h s computer virus. It provides information on the users risk of contracting AIDS, and at the same time encrypts the users hard drive after 90 reboots. The user is then informed that a license fee must be paid in return for the decryption key [Sla94]. This Trojan is one of the first extortion attempts made using rogue programs. Unfortunately, we do not know the exact cipher used by the AIDS Information Trojan. It can be considered a step in the direction of a h s virus. The KOH virus is a virus that is used to encrypt the data on a host ....
R. Slade. Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses, pages 8, 53--54, 454, 1994. SpringerVerlag.
....snatching, public key cryptography, blindable probabilistic encryption, ElGamal public key, public distribution channels, secure receiver anonymous channel. 1 Introduction Threats by malware that try to hide their own existence are known (e.g. stealth virus and slow virus technologies [Sla94] and [pro ref] ch. 14) Here we show how to combine malware, existing communication technology (public channels) and existing cryptographic technology to increase the hiding properties of attacks to a new level. We show that information espionage attacks on computer systems and networks ....
R. Slade. Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses. Springer-Verlag, 1994.
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