In the Western press material, which tells, Russian special services allegedly developed malware, is a "huge threat". is approved, that a computer virus after being hit by something or other electronic device extends well, that it is impossible to remove it from there, "existing resources".
This statement is contained in the report of ESET, presented at a security conference «Blue Hat».
surprisingly,, in the United States have already declared, that "know" about, who developed the malware, "Threatens democracy". it, as stated in the same report,, Group Fancy Bear, allegedly having contacts with the Russian intelligence.
From the report of ESET:
The virus is based on the spy program code, proposed by the hacker group Hacking Team. Russian hackers have borrowed it and made more perfect.
Virus, as announced, sends information of a confidential nature to the user's computer to the attackers server, allowing them to determine its location, as well as remote control of the electronic device.
The virus is called LoJax UEFI code and rewrites the chip on the system board devices. This chip is responsible for the loading and the computer is restarted, including wearable devices. The virus persists in any attempt to reinstall the operating system or formatting the hard drive. If you try to remove the virus antiviral agents, it is automatically reset.
By what criteria in the United States identified the involvement of Russian intelligence development of the virus, of course, nobody says.
