{"id":133411,"date":"2022-01-01T00:25:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-malware-uses-ssd-over-provisioning-to-bypass-security-measures"},"modified":"2022-01-01T00:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T08:25:21","slug":"new-malware-uses-ssd-over-provisioning-to-bypass-security-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-malware-uses-ssd-over-provisioning-to-bypass-security-measures","title":{"rendered":"New Malware Uses SSD Over-Provisioning to Bypass Security Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-malware-uses-ssd-over-provisioning-to-bypass-security-measures2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An almost perfect way to stealthily store malware.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Korean researchers have detected a vulnerability in SSDs that allows malware to plant itself directly in an SSD\u2019s empty over-provisioning partition. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/firmware-attack-can-drop-persistent-malware-in-hidden-ssd-area\/\">reported by BleepingComputer,<\/a> this allows the malware to be nearly invincible to security countermeasures.<\/p>\n<p>Over-provisioning is a feature included in all modern SSDs that improves the lifespan and performance of the SSD\u2019s built-in NAND storage. Over-provisioning in essentially just empty storage space. But, it gives the SSD a chance to ensure that data is evenly distributed between all the NAND cells by shuffling data to the over-provisioning pool when needed.<\/p>\n<p>While this space is supposed to be inaccessible by the operating system \u2014 and thus anti-virus tools \u2014 this new malware can infiltrate it and use it as a base of operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An almost perfect way to stealthily store malware. Korean researchers have detected a vulnerability in SSDs that allows malware to plant itself directly in an SSD\u2019s empty over-provisioning partition. As reported by BleepingComputer, this allows the malware to be nearly invincible to security countermeasures. Over-provisioning is a feature included in all modern SSDs that improves [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133411","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}