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Re:Botnet that hid for 18 months by password4321 on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @12:42AM (#31256838)
Did anyone ever decrypt that portion of Gauss, circa 2012?

That's the most effectively hidden malware code I know of.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/the-w...

Re:Botnet that hid for 18 months by mike_d on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:33AM (#31258066)
No. I know a few antivirus companies and security searchers continue to run brute force cracks against it going on 10 years now.

Other modules in Gauss monitored transactions with Lebanese banks, so a logical assumption is it was deployed as part of a terror financing investigation against a very specific set of computers.