Virus in Spaaaaaaaaace!
Posted on | August 28, 2008
Laptop computers taken to the International Space Station had been compromised by a well-known virus:
Space news website SpaceRef broke the story about the virus on the laptops that astronauts took to the ISS.
NASA told SpaceRef that no command or control systems of the ISS were at risk from the malicious program.
The laptops infected with the virus were used to run nutritional programs and let the astronauts periodically send e-mail back to Earth.
The laptops carried by astronauts reportedly do not have any anti-virus software on them to prevent infection.
Once it has scooped up passwords and login names the Gammima.AG worm virus tries to send them back to a central server. It targets a total of 10 games most of which are popular in the Far East such as Maple Story, HuangYi Online and Talesweaver.
In space, no one can hear you get pwned.
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