The Malware Wars Keep Escalating

[Astronomer]

"Researchers are closing in on a means to detect previously undetectable stealthy malware
that resides in peripherals like graphics and network cards. The
malware was developed by the same researchers and targeted host runtime
memory using direct memory access provided to hardware devices. They said the malware was a 'highly critical threat to system security and integrity' and could not be detected by any operating system."

 

Good to see that the "white hats" are staying on top of the threat vectors. My home network is locked down tighter than many Fortune 500 networks (seriously - Dedicated Sophos Unified Threat Management Server + layered security/anti-malware apps on clients, encrypted browser sessions, etc.), and yet I know that (thanks NSA!) we are still vulnerable. Luckily, my network and personal information is about as interesting as plain melbatoast. Security through obscurity. I still shudder when I look at 3 of my server's security logs and see the hack attempts. Mostly from China, followed by Russia. And that's despite geo-blocking of IP addresses.

Edited September 27, 2013 by Astronomer

[BigPapaDean]

What's interesting about this is this! The US government knows all this crap is going on even at their level yet they do little to nothing to help keep US aware! Makes you wonder huh?