Mike Bond, George Danezis
Proceedings of the 2006 workshop on New security paradigms, pp. 77-82
ISBN 978-1-59593-923-4
August 2006
Download PDF (106.28Kb) (You need to be registered on forum)We study malware propagation strategies which exploit not the incompetence or naivety of users, but instead their own greed, malice and short-sightedness. We demonstrate that interactive propagation strategies, for example bribery and blackmail of computer users, are effective mechanisms for malware to survive and entrench, and present an example employing these techniques. We argue that in terms of propagation, there exists a continuum between legitimate applications and pure malware, rather than a quantised scale.