TLDR: An AMI testkey was used in production by a bunch of manufacturers. The key has now been leaked.

    • Dyskolos
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      105 months ago

      It’s not just you (as is with all these kinds of questions). It’s an observable trend. As complexity rises, potential for errors rise.

        • @Ptsf
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          25 months ago

          Dollar dollar bills, ya’ll.

        • Dyskolos
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          15 months ago

          That too. But also proportional to growing complexity. More complex things to manage makes more room for mistakes in management. With maybe even the epitome being “ah fuck it”

  • sylver_dragon
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    105 months ago

    As much “doom and gloom” as the article pushes, I kinda feel that the compromised keys being well known makes detection easier. The malicious binary needs to be signed with one of these keys, this means that there will be very specific structures (e.g. the public key) at well known locations in the file. This is exactly the type of threat which anti-virus is good at detecting. Assuming a network’s security folks aren’t completely asleep at the switch, these attacks should get picked up and blocked pretty fast.

    There is a reason attackers spend so much time and effort obfuscating code and keeping files off the disk. While A/V may be a pretty terrible security control and easily bypassed in many cases, watching for files with well known patterns is one of the few things A/V tends to do well.