Rootkit In a Network Card Demonstrated

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Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @04:11PM from the burrowing-in-deep dept.

KindMind notes coverage in The Register on a researcher who has developed a firmware-based rootkit that resides in a network card. Here is the developer's blog entry. "Guillaume Delugré, a reverse engineer at French security firm Sogeti ESEC, was able to develop proof-of-concept code after studying the firmware from Broadcom Ethernet NetExtreme PCI Ethernet cards... Using the knowledge gained from this process, Delugré was able to develop custom firmware code and flash the device so that his proof-of-concept code ran on the CPU of the network card."

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First Post (Score:3, Funny)

by Wannabe Code Monkey ( 638617 ) writes: on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @04:16PM (#34322408)

At least it would have been a first post had the rootkit in my network card not delayed my packets.

Re:Scary (Score:5, Funny)

by jimicus ( 737525 ) writes: on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @04:29PM (#34322614)

That's pretty frightening. I would think this would be a pain in the ass to discover, and you'd end up replacing motherboards on servers/workstations trying to figure out why they kept crashing. I mean, who would flash their network card as a troubleshooting step?
I see you've never contacted Dell technical support.

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