The Biggest Hacking Mania has arrived
- 'The Hackers Conference 2012'. In
this first of its kind conference in India, Blackhat hackers drawn from around
the world will demonstrate how they access a victim's personal information, and
even confidential data available on the Android cell phone. The conference will
be held on July 29 at
the India Habitat Centre in
New Delhi.
The use of Linux as an operating
system is increasing rapidly, thanks partly topopular distributions such as
‘RedHat’ and ‘Suse’. So far, there are very few Linuxfile infectors and they do
not pose a big threat yet. However, with more desktopsrunning Linux, and
probably more Linux viruses, the Linux virus situation couldbecome a bigger
problem.
17 years old hacker,Aneesh Dogra will talk
on "How to make a
Linux ELF Virus (That works on your latest linux distribution)"
at 'The Hackers Conference 2012' .
Linux or Unix has the reputation of being "not so buggy", and of
being a good maintainer of system sanctity via good protection mechanisms.
This talk will be focused on How to
make a simple ELF virus in Linux. A virus is a program that infects other
programs stored on permanent media. Usually this means to copy the executable
code of the virus into another file. Other possible targets are boot sectors
and programmable ROMs.
The Executable and Linking Format
(ELF) is meant to provide developers with a set of binary interface definitions
that extend across multiple platforms. ELF is indeed used on several platforms,
and is flexible enough to be manipulated creatively, as demonstrated by many. A
virus could attach viral code to an ELF file, and re-route control-flow so as
to include the viral code during execution.
Aneesh said,"We'll be starting with a basic idea of a
Prepernder and using that we'll create a Virus which actually works on your latest
linux distribution. There will a demonstration showing how this virus infects
different files on the system, and How it can be dangerous."
The Hackers Conference 2012 is
expected to be the first open gathering of Blackhat hackers in India who will
debate latest security issues with the top itelligence echolons in India.
ChallenGe Security Team, which
includes Sina Hatef Matbue, Farhad
Miria and Arash Shirkhorshidifrom Iran will deliberate on the topic
"GraVitoN: Cross
Platform Malware". GraViton, they claim aspires to become an
artificial creature which can move between world of windows, world of apples,
and world of emperor penguins, etc., and remain stealth. “We believe as this
project grows, security professionals will have a better and deeper
understanding of how viruses, trojans, etc work, so they can fight and protect
themselves against those, and they can even create 'white viruses', to spread
and fight against malicious viruses, effectively,” the press release informed.
