"THE FANCY BEAR hacking group has plenty of tools at its disposal, as evidenced by its attacks against the Democratic National Committee, the Pyeongchang Olympics, and plenty more. But cybersecurity firm ESET appears to have caught the elite Russian team using a technique so advanced, it hadn’t ever been seen in the wild until now.
ESET found what’s known as a UEFI rootkit, which is a way to gain persistent access to a computer that’s hard to detect and even harder to clean up, on an unidentified victim’s machine. The technique isn’t unheard of; researchers have explored proofs of concept in the past, and leaked files have indicated that both the CIA and the independent exploit-focused company Hacking Team have had the capability. But evidence that it has happened, in the form of malware called LoJax, represents a significant escalation in the Fancy Bear—which ESET calls Sednit—toolkit."
Oh no, russian hackers are going to infiltrate my home and puncture my punchcards
ROM means unable to be changed in any way from within the operating system you retards, of course you can change ROM in a way or another with enough patience and dedication, but NOT from within the OS that's currently running on your machine
Hunter Lee
My OS and machine can't even read punchcards you retard, so by that definition it's not even memory since it can carry no readable information.
A machine meant to use punchcards, on the other hand, isn't unlikely to have a puncher as well. Much like machines that are made to work with optical media not infrequently also had disc burning capabilities.
Samuel Phillips
they're WORM, write-once-read-many like cd-r or printed paper
Joshua Perez
CIA version must come installed by default in US PC market while the Gopnik one in the Mother Russia.
>(?) >being unsure in the day and age when x86 CPUs have a hidden RISC core that completely ignore ring protection system and stand above all the other rings
Chase Gray
how would one detect such a core ?
Jaxon Torres
if (env.RISC_CORE) { console.log("has RISC_CORE"); }
Jaxson Brown
I mean not using a specialized command line, as these don't always exist, and won't exist if they really want something hidden
Joshua Ortiz
let result; for (let i = 0; i < 255; i++) { result = asm { pop } }
