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avodonosov
on Feb 17, 2015
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The firmware can just modify data - when BIOS asks HDD to read boot sector, the HDD firmware returns modified boot sector with malicious code implanted.
Similarly for other code loaded from hard drive (system files, drivers, etc).
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Similarly for other code loaded from hard drive (system files, drivers, etc).