Thunderstrike 2 – A worm designed to kill your Mac – Video
Researchers have developed a worm targetting Macs on a firmware level. This makes it almost impossible to remove as it can resist software/firmware updates as well as block them entirely. The worm is also capable of reinstalling itself if required as it is embedded deep in the firmware level.
This worm dubbed ‘Thunderstrike 2′ was created by the same people who found the exploit ‘Thunderstrike’ (a proof of concept) which was made public around February this year. Thunderstrike 2 builds upon this proof of concept by putting the exploit into use and actually implementing a malicious worm deep inside the MacBooks core.
The Mac can be infected by this exploit via a website or email. Once infected the worm is able to spread itself through to other Macs via Apples perephirals – external drives, RAID controllers and even Thunderbolt to Gigabit ethernet adapters.
