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Re:Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates ... by tyingq on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:04PM (#27563373)
It doesn't sound like particulary clever malware to me. It sends a filename to some logging service, then opens the windows hosts file and adds some lines to it. And it's only run because the downloader thinks it's some pirated software or keygen.

Not to say there aren't some folks wasting time on more clever malware.

Re:Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates ... by Frost1x on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:50PM (#27563818)
This is definitely no Stuxnet or even remotely close. In fact, it's not even a very new strategy, themes of this have been done several times to varying degrees of sophistication.
Re:Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates ... by vsareto on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:34PM (#27563669)
That's what I mean. The bar is pretty low, and yet someone chose to go even lower.