BadBios, Self healing and self defending Malware...... we're toast!

HGK420

Well-Known Member

Jan 15, 2014

• #1

O did i forget to mention it can jump air gaps....... theory is it uses speakers and mics to jump between unconnected cpu's

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/

i dont even know how to begin to feel about this one.... Ghost in the machines has a whole new meaning to me now.

 

CashCrops

Well-Known Member

Jan 15, 2014

• #2

Impossible:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/4-reasons-badbios-isnt-real-230636

Also, it would be impossible to work cross platform.

 

Huel Perkins

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Jan 15, 2014

• #3

Skynet!!!!

 

HGK420

Well-Known Member

Jan 15, 2014

• #4

CashCrops said:

Impossible:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/4-reasons-badbios-isnt-real-230636

Also, it would be impossible to work cross platform.

Click to expand...

your link goes to n article written nov 12th of last year just a couple weeks after the discoveries, much more has been discovered since

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/scientist-developed-malware-covertly-jumps-air-gaps-using-inaudible-sound/

idk if dragos is loosing it or what but it certainly seems he's not.

 

HGK420

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Jan 15, 2014

• #5

this one came out today

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/nsa-uses-covert-radio-transmissions-to-monitor-100000-bugged-computers/

seems eagle eye wasn't so far off lol. using other audio devices to act as repeaters really makes the possibilities of this pretty amazing imo.

 

TheMan13

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Jan 15, 2014

• #6

I was pretty freaked out by the NSA's manufacturing of USB cables with firmware type malware and radio transmitters built in. I can only imagine how they got these into "the market" and at what numbers. Most disheartening is the fact NSA inexplicably seeks out the word marijuana in their games

 

CashCrops

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Jan 15, 2014

• #7

There's definitely custom software from the NSA along with hardware. regardless they have this conversation even now

 

TheMan13

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Jan 15, 2014

• #8

A century ago we could travel abroad without a passport. Big Brother has become a BIG problem within just the past decade or two. Corruption breeds like cancer when there is no accountability