Week 7: Distribution

Getting malware from its creator to its targets at scale, held at the semester's mid-point retro and assessment discussion

21 September 2027

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A three-week gap separates this lecture from the last: a mid-semester checkpoint before the course turns from getting malware onto one machine to getting it onto many. This lecture covers the infrastructure and delivery mechanisms that scale an operation, alongside a retro on the semester so far and a discussion of assessment.

Outline#

• getting malware from its creator to its targets
• infrastructure
• delivery mechanisms
• scaling an operation
• mid-semester retro / assessment discussion