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| The Internationalization of Malware                                |
|   from the one-man’s-trash dept.                                   |
|   posted by Soulskill on Sunday July 06, @10:39 (Security)         |
|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/06/1352216 |
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[0]Ant brings us a write-up from a former malware analyst about the
difficulties in fighting malware as it [1]expands beyond English-language
targets and into societies with different standards for privacy and
security. Quoting: “One of the most fascinating facets of the increasing
internationalization of malware is the cultural assumptions around such
software. What is considered malware in the US may be commonly accepted
in China or Japan, and this is largely due to the society that it exists
in. Anti-cheating rootkits are very common in games released in these
countries. What is considered to be invasive in the North American or
European world is acceptable there. These anti-cheating rootkits would
hook into the kernel space in a very invasive way, and have the
behavioral characteristics of malware such as hooking into the keyboard
driver. This made it very difficult from a purely technical standpoint to
distinguish them.”

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Links:
0. http://aqfl.net/
1. http://www.matasano.com/log/1080/internationalization-of-malware/