Researchers Create Self-Replicating (Malicious?) Android App

[sinu]

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http://news.softpedia.com/news/security-researchers-create-self-replicating-malicious-android-app-496006.shtml

Attempting to destroy the Internet using endlessly self-replicating software, security researchers from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, have created an Android application that can reproduce itself across a network.
At this stage, the application is capable of self-compilation, mutation, and viral spreading, requiring no human interaction to evolve, and no root permissions on the device it runs on.

The app currently works on Android devices, but the researchers claim that in the near future, the app will also be able to work across multiple platforms and operating systems.

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[LabZero]

Reading this article I think about two considerations.

The first: this researchers speak excited about this "malware" maybe forgetting the real danger of this intelligent and evolved "super-worm".

The second consideration reminds me Len Adleman, a researcher at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
He compared the behavior of malware to a biological virus, especially as regards the ability to spread the infection. Originally, these programs were not created to cause harm, as do the vast majority of malware today, but the principle was based on much more interesting considerations: if it was possible to create a program that can replicate itself, it was also possible to make sure that this evolves. If the replication process encounters an error, the code, the information encoded in the bits that make up the program, it is mutant. As the mutant genetic code determines the extent to which a virus is able to survive and spread, the mutant digital code might determine the extent to which a computer virus is able to survive in its environment. As a logical consequence of this theory, after a sufficient period of time, a malware could develop into something like artificial intelligence.

 

[frogboy]

Reading this article I think about two considerations.

The first: this researchers speak excited about this "malware" maybe forgetting the real danger of this intelligent and evolved "super-worm".

The second consideration reminds me Len Adleman, a researcher at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.
He compared the behavior of malware to a biological virus, especially as regards the ability to spread the infection. Originally, these programs were not created to cause harm, as do the vast majority of malware today, but the principle was based on much more interesting considerations: if it was possible to create a program that can replicate itself, it was also possible to make sure that this evolves. If the replication process encounters an error, the code, the information encoded in the bits that make up the program, it is mutant. As the mutant genetic code determines the extent to which a virus is able to survive and spread, the mutant digital code might determine the extent to which a computer virus is able to survive in its environment. As a logical consequence of this theory, after a sufficient period of time, a malware could develop into something like artificial intelligence.

That is very scary indeed, i think i should just abandon the internet forever.

But it is to much fun so i am here to stay.

 

[LabZero]

That is very scary indeed, i think i should just abandon the internet forever.

But it is to much fun so i am here to stay.

Yes, I hope it - is and remains - a proof concept.