Re: Big up to torpig authors

[John Lamb <full-disclosure () lawnjam com>]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 02:23:38PM -0400, T Biehn wrote:
> "A recent update to this algorithm is particularly interesting.
> Similarly to the previous version, the new algorithm uses the current
> date to generate the drive-by-download domain. However, the new
> algorithm also relies on search trends from Twitter to generate one
> additional seed byte."
>
> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/torpig/index.html

Unfortunately for them a competing virus has seriously reduced the
entropy of their source - "Swine Flu" has been sitting at the top of the
list for days now...

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