Kaspersky calls the malware publisher The Equation Group and describes a family of malware that are used in concert in order to
• infect hard drive firmware persistently and invisibly • infect USB drive firmware persistently and invisibly • inflitrate and infect and execute commands on isolated / airgapped networks • courier and retrieve select information from infected machines once an infected device is reconnected to an Internet-connected machine. http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2015/Equation-Group-The-Crown-Creator-of-Cyber-Espionage <http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/virus/2015/Equation-Group-The-Crown-Creator-of-Cyber-Espionage> https://securelist.com/blog/research/68750/equation-the-death-star-of-malware-galaxy/ <https://securelist.com/blog/research/68750/equation-the-death-star-of-malware-galaxy/> Joe Szilagyi Joe Szilagyi
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