infected bios
Oct. 13th, 2013 11:41 pmSome fooling with bios hacking:
http://www.mitre.org/capabilities/cybersecurity/overview/cybersecurity-blog/copernicus-question-your-assumptions-about
note that dell & others make servers with out-of-band control (a.k.a. backdoor for malicious users) as a mechanism to automate command and control of datacenters. One person's efficiency-making tool is another's backdoor.
http://www.mitre.org/capabilities/cybersecurity/overview/cybersecurity-blog/copernicus-question-your-assumptions-about
...and that's not even interesting part. Seems to have a BIOS hypervisor, SDR functionality that bridges air gaps, wifi card removed.
— dragosr (@dragosr) @ragosr
note that dell & others make servers with out-of-band control (a.k.a. backdoor for malicious users) as a mechanism to automate command and control of datacenters. One person's efficiency-making tool is another's backdoor.