Defending Against New Rootkits That Beat BSD, Linux, Mac, Vista, AMD and Intel
“The idea behind Blue Pill is simple,” says Joanna Rutkowska of invisible things. “Your operating system swallows the Blue Pill and it awakes inside the Matrix.”
No reboot is necessary. Everything appears to work as always… but it’s really under new management. Rutkowska’s Blue Pill hypervisor rootkit is calling the shots.
Rutkowska claims that, even with Blue Pill code in hand, you can’t detect it.
In fact, all Blue Pill requires is a machine… any machine… equipped with AMD’s SVM/Pacifica virtualization technology. Pacifica uses AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture to speed up virtualization at the chip level. AMD claims… or claimed… that Pacifica actually enhances security.
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