Weird, Scary, and Annoying malware
For the majority of the time, malware is a serious problem, and its creation is sponsored by organised crime syndicates and nation states looking to commit cyberespionage and wage cyberwar. However, there are some malware that are just funny, and its developers took more care over how to annoy a victim than to just do something malicious. I came across one malware called the Memz Trojan and wondered if more equally ridiculous malicious software exists. The MEMZ Trojan - see above - is a custom-made Windows malware, originally created for a Viewer-Made Malware YouTube series as a parody of a script kiddie's idea of dangerous malware. It has gained fame and notoriety due to its highly complex and unique payloads, many of which are based around internet memes. MEMZ is mainly thought of as a joke. However, the very same script kiddies have the MEMZ Trojan and from this video , it appears to have been deployed on a laptop at an educational institution. Although it may be...