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KD Raid · Season 1
Every Sunday at 21:00 MYT the whole server defends the KD Core against one boss. Your fighter runs on your real KD numbers, locked at T-0.
Demo data — fictional records
★ Stage 06 ★
Next raid in
Sundays · 21:00 MYT
Raid 06 · Sundays 21:00 MYT
Defending
KD Core
1,867 HP
Raid 06 · 2003
3,760 HP
The stat
376 bytes. Ten minutes.
The mechanic
The swarm doubles every 8.5 seconds. Damage in the first two minutes counts double; after minute ten it is everywhere at once.
Did you know
In January 2003 it infected about 75,000 servers in ten minutes, doubling every 8.5 seconds at its peak. The whole worm fit in a single 376-byte network packet and lived only in memory. The patch for the hole it used had been out for six months.
Core HP this week
| Source | Count | HP |
|---|---|---|
| Base Core | every week | 1,000 |
| Projects shipped | 14 × 25 | +350 |
| Replies on the board | 312 × 1 | +312 |
| New members | 41 × 5 | +205 |
| Core HP | 1,867 |
Still counting. The numbers lock at T-0 and the fight runs on them.
Before T-0
Your fighter's stats come from what you do on KD this week.
Roster
Fighters signed up
0
The ring is empty.Sign-up opens 24 hours before the raid.
Prediction
Famous malware, one a week
1988 · 1,988 HP
6,000 machines. One in ten.
In November 1988 it slowed or crashed an estimated 6,000 computers, roughly a tenth of the internet at the time. A bug made it reinfect machines it had already reached, which is what made it so destructive. The clean-up led to the first computer emergency response team, CERT, at Carnegie Mellon.
1999 · 2,199 HP
Fifty contacts at a time.
In March 1999 it arrived as a Word document. Opening it ran a macro that mailed the file to the first 50 people in your Outlook address book, and so much mail piled up that several large companies shut their email down to stop it.
2000 · 2,500 HP
One love letter. Millions of inboxes.
In May 2000 an email with the subject ILOVEYOU reached tens of millions of computers within days. Windows hid file extensions by default, so the attachment LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs looked like a plain text file. The Philippines, where it started, had no law that covered it, and passed one within weeks.
2001 · 2,850 HP
359,000 servers in 14 hours.
In July 2001 it infected about 359,000 Microsoft IIS web servers in under 14 hours and defaced their pages. The researchers who took it apart named it after the Mountain Dew flavour they were drinking. It was also set to flood the White House website, which moved to a new address in time.
2001 · 3,100 HP
Five ways in. Twenty-two minutes.
Its name is "admin" spelled backwards. Released in September 2001, it spread by email, through shared folders, from infected websites and through holes earlier worms had left open, and within about 22 minutes it was the most widespread malware on the internet.
2003 · 3,760 HP
376 bytes. Ten minutes.
In January 2003 it infected about 75,000 servers in ten minutes, doubling every 8.5 seconds at its peak. The whole worm fit in a single 376-byte network packet and lived only in memory. The patch for the hole it used had been out for six months.
2003 · 4,100 HP
Shutdown in 60 seconds.
In August 2003 it made infected Windows PCs show a 60-second shutdown countdown, over and over. Hidden inside was a message telling Microsoft's founder to fix his software, and it was set to flood windowsupdate.com; Microsoft took that address offline to dodge the attack.
2008 · 4,800 HP
50,000 domains a day.
First seen in November 2008, it infected millions of Windows machines, military networks among them. One version generated 50,000 possible web addresses a day to take orders from, so security firms and domain registries formed the Conficker Working Group to block them in advance. Microsoft offered a $250,000 reward for its authors.
2010 · 5,600 HP
Four zero-days. One plant.
Found in 2010, it targeted the Siemens controllers that spun uranium centrifuges at Iran's Natanz plant. It used four previously unknown Windows flaws, travelled on USB sticks to reach machines that were never online, and showed operators normal readings while it pushed the centrifuges past their limits.
2017 · 6,300 HP
$300 in bitcoin. 150 countries.
In May 2017 it locked more than 200,000 computers in about 150 countries, NHS hospitals in the UK among them, and demanded $300 in bitcoin. It spread through EternalBlue, an exploit leaked from the NSA a month before. A security researcher slowed it by registering, for about $10, a nonsense web address the code checked before it ran.
2017 · 7,000 HP
Looked like ransomware. Wasn't.
In June 2017 it spread through a hijacked update to M.E.Doc, a Ukrainian accounting program. Its ransom note was a decoy: files could not be recovered even by paying. The shipping company Maersk rebuilt its network from a single domain controller in Ghana that a power cut had kept offline.
Past raids
Hi-score: Raid 04, boss down at minute 09
Raid 05 ·
NimdaVictory
Raid 04 ·
Code RedVictory
Raid 03 ·
ILOVEYOUVictory
Raid 02 ·
MelissaVictory
Raid 01 ·
Morris WormVictory