Kournikova worm marks 10th anniversary Friday, 11 February, marks the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anna Kournikova worm. The malware spread by tricking users into opening a mail message that supposedly contained a picture of the famous Russian tennis beauty. In reality, the malware harvested a victim's Outlook address book, forwarding fresh copies of …
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>>"The Kournikova worm was the first to be created by someone with a toolkit and little technical knowledge"
I keep reading about these supposed "first" in the era of "macro" and VBScript worms, ignoring actual history, and all that came before.
I remember playing with something called NuKe's Randomic Life Generator back in the early 90s. This was a do-it-yourself virus construction kit, which employed a nifty menu-driven interface to create viruses (or mosters, as it called them) with pre-built code modules offering diverse destructive or stealth features. With just a few keystrokes you could create a polymorphic, boot-sector virus that would crash your drive and try to hijack Norton anti-virus to spread.
Before that there was also VCL: Virus Construction Laboratory.
Boy, those were fun days!
dZ.
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