Unknown malware pathogen ..
"In late 2012, Dell SecureWorks researchers took control of a domain used by the Comment Crew following the address's expiration. Subsequent analysis of the network traffic sent to the domain from malware-controlled computers revealed that machines in a large US university were phoning home to the domain using SSL encryption as the result of infection by a then unknown malware pathogen".
What OS platform does this 'unknown malware pathogen' run on?
Is this a technical report or an article in the Daily Fail I am reading?
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