Is it possible for someone to make a virus that infects everything on internet and bring it to a halt?I was reading cyberpunk lore and was curious if this is at all realistic?
holy shit are you 12?
>>107889863no. at a minimum, you'd need multiple different ones to handle each OS. even in your OP image the word viruses is plural>>107889869but yeah kind of this
>>107889863>Is it possible for someone to make a virus that infects everything on internet and bring it to a halt?>a virus No, not a single one which is not what happened in the CP universe anyway. Post RAM Crisis when every smart kitchen applicance has a terrabyte of memory to run a LLM to surveil you though, a self modiying AI virus might actually infect a lot of devices.
>>107889863If you're in the position where you can do that, you'd probably choose to steal some crypto and become a billionaire. But realistically you'd be a wagie working for a government and you'd have to do what they tell you to do. Probably something military related
>>107889863If by virus you mean a gargantuan electromagnetic pulse that fries not just every microchip but pretty much every PCB outside of a faraday cage then yes. Otherwise, absolutely fucking not.
>>107889863RABIDS didn't exactly destroy the net, it basically made the existing net so unsafe that a new one had to be carved out with special proprietary security blocking it off.In a limited sense that is possible. Think about how most sites are locked behind Cloudflare nowadays and anything that isn't gets mauled by ddos attacks. It's not as sci-fi as "mutated rogue AI" but you basically can't operate a serious website on today's internet like you could on the old internet.
>>107889863>Is it possible for someone to make a virus that infects everything on internet and bring it to a halt?Yes. But it probably won't last more than few days.It would be more effective to cut the backbone cables.
The closest real world example would be stuxnet.
>>107889895So Cloudflare is netwatch But haven't there been worms in 90s and 2000s that caused serious damage or that one North Korean ransomware virus that was infecting hospitals across UK. I don't mean everything on internet but maybe critical infrastructure or devices that will effect most people >>107889919They had to insert that one with a usb and its source code is open for you to see
>>107889935Ultimately networks are too airgapped for some sci-fi malware to suddenly propagate everywhere and destroy everything. The most dangerous vector for malware infection is social engineering. You'd have to invent a virus that does social engineering all on its own to use humans as a vector. Essentially getting the victim to plug in the proverbial stuxnet USB to cross airgaps. But at that point you may as well use social engineering to have these people send you crypto instead, and that's just a regular old scam.
>>107889935It also traversed various OS's though before finding it's way to the reactor and then deposited a specific virus for that system. The basic idea is that a single malware would contain versions of itself for various systems and then just make the relevant one the outer layer with copies of the other versions inside it so it can infect anything. This would require vulnerabilities for all those systems though which is what makes it difficult.
>>107889962What about Azeri click malware that idf has that needs no social engineering?
