Security: UEFI Risks and Bad Rabbit (Microsoft Windows Strikes Again)
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Google Even Fear Intel ME, Reduce Their Attack Vector With NERF
Even Google is concerned about attack vectors with UEFI and Intel's Management Engine that their NERF project seeks to alleviate some of these concerns and is used by their servers.
NERF is short for the Non-Extensible Reduced Firmware and is their effort to replace most of the UEFI firmware with a small Linux kernel and initramfs while their custom portions of the code are written in the Go programming language.
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Bad Rabbit ransomware spread using leaked NSA EternalRomance exploit, researchers confirm
When the ransomware first infected organisations in Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday, it was initially suggested that it was using EternalBlue -- the leaked exploit which helped the spread of WannaCry -- but this was quickly found to be not the case.
However, researchers at Cisco Talos have now identified that Bad Rabbit did indeed use an SMB vulnerability to propagate through networks -- known as EternalRomance. Researchers at other security firms including Symantec and Kaspersky Lab have also confirmed the use of EternalRomance.
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Threat Spotlight: Follow the Bad Rabbit
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Bad Rabbit malware used leaked alleged NSA tool
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Don’t Forget to Thank NSA for Powering Yet Another Ransomware Outbreak
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Bad Rabbit Ransomware Outbreak Also Used NSA Exploit
Two days after the Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreak has wreaked havoc in Russia and Ukraine, security researchers are still unearthing details regarding the malware's modus operandi.
While initially it was believed that the ransomware spread from the initial victim to nearby computers using a custom scanning mechanism that relied on the SMB protocol, new research published today by Cisco Talos and F-Secure reveals the Bad Rabbit ransomware also used a modified version of an NSA exploit to bolster the spreading process.
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Was Russia behind BadRabbit? Mystery surrounds cyberattack powered by NSA tool
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