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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Did people think that not connecting to a network was a magic technique that prevented infections from being spread on USB drives if you move them back and forth?

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's weird for the title to focus on the tools, and not the attack itself.

Two attacks on production air-gapped networks, with different tools, from the same group, is pretty damn impressive. Especially for a group not backed by a nation-state.

Edit: it sounds like this was a multi-stage attack...compromising a production non-airgapped internal system and using that to create the USB payload and later exfiltration. That's pretty cool. The mule who brought the infected USB into the air-gapped space was likely none the wiser...the media had been written by them, to their own USB, and probably even hardware encrypted at rest (something like an Apricorn).

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

it sounds like this was a multi-stage attack...compromising a production non-airgapped internal system and using that to create the USB payload and later exfiltration. That's pretty cool. The mule who brought the infected USB into the air-gapped space was likely none the wiser...the media had been written by them, to their own USB, and probably even hardware encrypted at rest (something like an Apricorn).

Yeah, that's pretty damn impressive.

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