How malware could be used to predict future world conflicts

Comment: Interesting article how malware can be manipulated to predict future world conflicts
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In terms of usefulness, we typically think of malware as somewhere between a volcano eruption and the Ebola virus. But researchers from security firm FireEye have developed a technique by which the spread of malware could predict upcoming world conflicts.
According to researchers who monitored millions of malware messages sent over the past 18 months, the amount of communications sent by malware programs spiked dramatically in the lead-up to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine over the future of Crimea. A similar spike was seen in malware attacking Israel in the days before its recent hostilities with Hamas in Gaza.
 The FireEye study drew on data collected from more than 5,000 corporate and government clients around the world. The software used by the researchers captures so-called "callback" messages that malware sends once it's ensconced inside a network -- these messages, in which the malware "phones home" are usually either reporting its status to its controllers or picking up new commands. FireEye used those messages to determine the location of the computer controlling the malware.
 
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