{"id":114042,"date":"2020-10-08T12:28:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T19:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/suspected-chinese-hackers-unleash-malware-that-can-survive-os-reinstalls"},"modified":"2020-10-12T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:45:51","slug":"suspected-chinese-hackers-unleash-malware-that-can-survive-os-reinstalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/suspected-chinese-hackers-unleash-malware-that-can-survive-os-reinstalls","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Chinese Hackers Unleash Malware That Can Survive OS Reinstalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/suspected-chinese-hackers-unleash-malware-that-can-survive-os-reinstalls3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis attack demonstrates that, albeit rarely, in exceptional cases, actors are willing to go to great lengths in order to gain the highest level of persistence on a victim\u2019s machine,\u201d said Kaspersky Lab researcher Mark Lechtik in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The company discovered the UEFI-based malware on machines belonging to two victims. It works to create a Trojan file called \u201cIntelUpdate.exe\u201d in the Startup Folder, which will reinstall itself even if the user finds it and deletes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis attack demonstrates that, albeit rarely, in exceptional cases, actors are willing to go to great lengths in order to gain the highest level of persistence on a victim\u2019s machine,\u201d said Kaspersky Lab researcher Mark Lechtik in a statement. The company discovered the UEFI-based malware on machines belonging to two victims. It works to create [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114263,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114042\/revisions\/114263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}