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Re:Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked by mirimir on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:39PM (#9697350)
Intel Security just reported that "[p]ersistent and virtually undetectable attacks by the Equation Group that reprogram hard disk drives and solid state drive firmware."[0,1] It's interesting that this threat was first reported by Kaspersky in February.[2]

The firmware exploits are part of the attack system with Duqu 2.0, right?

[0] http://www.mcafee.com/us/security-awareness/articles/mcafee-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9685829

[2] http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2015/equation-grou...

Re:Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked by HolyLampshade on Thursday June 11, 2015 @06:07AM (#9698700)
Different groups in this case. According to Kapersky's report, Duqu used a zero-day to promote into kernel space, then loaded the full payload into memory. Less terrifying than the firmware revision from EG as a single attack, but Duqu was unique in that it replicated itself around in the local network, making it impossible to remove short of powering down everything.