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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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No. This exploit worked because the medium is read-write. Once a disc is finalized, it cannot be written to. You can't exfiltrate data via the CD.
I'm sure there's some modified CD burner out there that can write to a finalized disc, but this would only work where the air-gapped machine supports it, and also even has a drive that can write.
Unless it’s a rewritable cd, or the cd is the first step in a chain of exploits that allows write access on the usb ports used for peripherals so that an inside person could get away with a usb key or modified keyboard, or something else we can’t conceptualize but some group of well funded state actors can