2026-04-23 22:43 UTC
Only in 2019 did @juanandres_gs@bird.makeup find the actual code for Fast16, which dated all the way back to 2005, through some clever hunting on the malware repository VirusTotal. It took seven more years for anyone to figure out what it actually did.
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@agreenberg@infosec.exchange 2026-04-23 22:44
Now he and his colleague Vitaly Kamluk have cracked it: Fast16 is designed to spread on networks, then tamper with the processes of specific calculation software that models complex physical phenomena, everything from oil spills to bird/airplane collisions.