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New threat from 'suicide' virus | Tech News on ZDNet

ZD Net reports from Australia:

"According to Denehy, techniques used not only include 'the obvious ones' such as encryption and rootkits but also 'compression bombs'--which are compressed files that try to make life difficult for forensic tools by attempting to expand to an infinite size when executed."

This is a new twist on a strategy that has really not been exploited fully by hackers, that of impersonation of legitimate applications. Anti-virus tools use checksums at differnet locations in a file to assess the legitimacy of a file against known results from verified software. If this procedure is known then hackers can get their malicious software to look, feel and act like legitimate software.

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