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USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Change 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 7 points 9 months ago

They don't even need to work that hard, just compromise the ME/PSP and do whatever.