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Equation Group The Crown Creator of Cyber Espionage (3)

1 Name: YoloLord : 2015-02-18 19:27 ID:NsYrVoVz [Del]

http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2015/Equation-Group-The-Crown-Creator-of-Cyber-Espionage

The US government has been fingered by Kapersky labs as the creator of persistent malware that reprograms hard drive firmware to maintain it's presence on a target's computer. Pretty classic imo, discuss pls.

2 Name: JackDenkin !3U.19DFF1s : 2015-02-18 20:42 ID:VR8L9/Os [Del]

If what i read (very quickly) is correct, then i can assume this malware is literally, the most dangerous one there is. (Assuming from my head, atm)

3 Name: YoloLord : 2015-02-18 21:09 ID:NsYrVoVz [Del]

>>2 Yeah, persistent malware that remains through hardware's pretty terrifying, and it could easily be exploited to rewrite attached USB firmware to spread over airgaps. I wonder if they'll ever attempt something like this en masse (doubt it).