misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTwo never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devicesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1207cross-posted to: techsploits@reddthat.com
arrow-up1207external-linkTwo never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devicesarstechnica.commisk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square37fedilinkcross-posted to: techsploits@reddthat.com
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·2 months agoIt seems like they could be rendered ineffective by simply disabling auto run and forcing removable drives to mount noexec.
minus-squareLink@rentadrunk.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·2 months agoThis should be the default on all PCs.
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·2 months agoI thought we learned that like two decades ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
minus-squareAbidanYre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoTo be fair, you could compromise Windows 98 by looking at it funny.
minus-squareLucy :3@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoDoes any Linux distro have autorun? Because Windows isn’t really an OS anyway.
minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoWindows isn’t an OS? What kind of nonsense is this? I’d say the team from DEC who created it, would differ.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoYes, Linux has autorun and some distros have it enabled by default.
minus-squarespecialseaweed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoYou would be shocked at the amount of times employees would bring devices into our air gapped network.
minus-squareexpr@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoYeah our corporate machines won’t run any external media. I assumed that was standard practice.
It seems like they could be rendered ineffective by simply disabling auto run and forcing removable drives to mount noexec.
This should be the default on all PCs.
I thought we learned that like two decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
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To be fair, you could compromise Windows 98 by looking at it funny.
Does any Linux distro have autorun? Because Windows isn’t really an OS anyway.
Windows isn’t an OS? What kind of nonsense is this?
I’d say the team from DEC who created it, would differ.
Yes, Linux has autorun and some distros have it enabled by default.
You would be shocked at the amount of times employees would bring devices into our air gapped network.
Yeah our corporate machines won’t run any external media. I assumed that was standard practice.