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Newfangled rootkits survive hard disk wiping
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:15:51 -0600 (CST)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/persistent_bios_rootkits/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 24th March 2009 Researchers have demonstrated how to create rootkits that survive hard-disk reformatting by injecting malware into the low-level system instructions of a target computer. The researchers, from Core Security Technologies, used the techniques to inject rootkits into two computers, one running the OpenBSD operating system and the other Windows. Because the infection lives in the computer's BIOS, or basic input/output system, it persists even after the operating system is reinstalled or a computer's hard drive is replaced. While researchers have focused on BIOS-based rootkits for at least three years, earlier techniques generally attacked specific types of BIOSes, such as those that used ACPI, or Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. The techniques demonstrated by the Core researchers work on virtually all types of systems, they said. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/
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