"Attack of the Wireless Worms"

[Peter Gutmann]

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3 at gmail.com> writes:

>"Recent research has shown that a new and disturbing form of computer
>infection is readily spread: the epidemic copying of malicious code
>among wireless routers without the participation of intervening
>computers. Such an epidemic could easily strike cities, where the
>ranges of wireless routers often overlap."

Does anyone know whether anything like this actually exists?  I've seen 
earlier work in this area that was either man-in-the-router proof-of-concept 
stuff or simulation (as this work appears to be), but I don't know of any 
in-the-wild mesh-network malware.

Peter.

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