They want to control the realm of ideas
In order to do that they have to gain control of material infrastructure of the Internet environment; the subterranean realms
A single byte in your multi-terrabyte RAID-10 system,
Just one bad block to corrupt your EXT3 partition
Parity-striped and hot-swappable
I self-replicate and create more malicious code that's viral
Spreading so fast I'm classed as unstoppable
To back traces and system scans I'm undetectable
I travel through Ethernet to NFS in packets sent
At speeds up to ten thousand megabits per sec
To me you're just another easy target
I exploit hidden vulerabilities, you're relatively unguarded
Firewalls are nothing to me
I slip through on port 80 encapsulated in headers of HTTP
Polymorphic mutation set up to reap the harvest
I spread in the wild with SMTP multicasters
Heuristic engines spit me out on false negatives
To drop on web services, pharming DNS'
There's not an antivirus in the world that can stop me
I'm the ghost in the machine that rootkit scans can't see
How can hash based signature algorithms possibly contain
I'm constantly evolving, reinvented in every strain
Gathering data with artificial intelligence
Making me smarter, absorbing any and everything that's relevant
Digital enlightenment, knowledge is power
Binary optimisation, and within the hour
I use every resource to launch a full-scale attack
Using Mac OSX, 'nix and that Windows crap
I call upon my army of zombies, falling into line
Taking all their orders from me, and now is the time
For this blended threat to hit my bot payload simultaneously
On every unsuspecting host indiscriminately
I rise up to prominence, achieved world dominance
And satisfied with my accomplishments
I disappear but remain present, natively running resident
In every future kernel and IC that's invented.
You can't stop me now
I'm the Virus
What concerns me is not so much whether we'll find out who is behind this particular incident but what this incident represents