Virus hiding in your Hard Drives
Spy agencies uses lot of ways to track the humans but NSA is step ahead of all these. According to the article on http://bgr.com/, NSA(Nation Security Agency) created a very smart virus and inject that in the computer Hard Drives.
Basically this virus hides itself in HDD firmware and gets active when PC is turn on. Regular Antivirus are not able to detect such kind of virus and HDD having such virus are large source of information for the Agency controlling the virus.
Drives from multiple companies have been found to contain the virus, including Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, IBM, Micro Technology and Samsung. Of those, Western Digital, Seagate and Micron said they have no knowledge of the matter, while Toshiba and Samsung did not comment.
This virus is revealed by the Russian security agency Kaspersky Lab. According to the agency, putting the malicious code in the HDD firmware is not easy task and also it can not be done through the public tool. They also comment that the owner of virus had to have access of the source code of HDD firmware which actually clear the point that HDD production house are working with NSA for such security breach.
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Basically this virus hides itself in HDD firmware and gets active when PC is turn on. Regular Antivirus are not able to detect such kind of virus and HDD having such virus are large source of information for the Agency controlling the virus.
Drives from multiple companies have been found to contain the virus, including Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, IBM, Micro Technology and Samsung. Of those, Western Digital, Seagate and Micron said they have no knowledge of the matter, while Toshiba and Samsung did not comment.
This virus is revealed by the Russian security agency Kaspersky Lab. According to the agency, putting the malicious code in the HDD firmware is not easy task and also it can not be done through the public tool. They also comment that the owner of virus had to have access of the source code of HDD firmware which actually clear the point that HDD production house are working with NSA for such security breach.
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