Comment on USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide
metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 11 months agoChange my mind.
Sure. Even regularly installing a new OS doesn’t necessarily keep you secure if someone wanted to discreetly install malware on your device. In addition to firmware-level rootkits that re-install themselves on fresh OSs (even platform-agnostic ones), it’s possible that someone might interdict whatever hardware is bought and implant it with additional small hardware that compromises it in some way.
db2@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
They don’t even need to work that hard, just compromise the ME/PSP and do whatever.