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Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] quixotic120 1 points 2 months ago

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