PCs Used in Korean DDoS Attacks Begin to Self Destruct

Another entertaining blog from Brian Krebs' Security Fix column in the Washington Post. I doubt if anyone remains unaware of the DDOS attacks that have recently targeted several U.S. and South Korean web sites, but it seems that a new wrinkle in the story is that many, perhaps all, of the infected PC's used to carry out the attacks are also infected with a MyDoom variant that is wiping the hard drives on the compromised machines.

The blog also drew a much higher than average number of responses, many of which are exceptionally insightful. Along with the predictable and less than brilliant "I run [insert non-Windows OS of choice here] and I ain't got no viruses," and "ChromeOS will make the world perfect."

The stupid thing is that those without backups will blame Microsoft for not protecting them. I think the guy who wants congress to legislate to force people to use AV is quite possibly out of his tiny....

We have enough legislation, thank you very much. Besides, how could they tell if you have an A/V running without a house to house search?

When you look at the system being affected here, I think you probably would get the same pattern as Conficker infections, for example: unpatched, unprotected, pirated copies of Windows.