LoJax rootkit used by Russian-linked Fancy Bear has been silently active since 2016


Researchers have discovered that LoJax, the malware that formed the foundation for devastating Fancy Bear attacks in 2018, has been silently active for years.

Use of this infrastructure by the Russian-linked hacking group was exposed in September 2018, just a few months after the LoJax servers were first discovered by security researchers in May.

LoJax was last year found to be incorporated as part of a Fancy Bear Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based rootkit, which meant LoJax was resistant to hard drive replacements and operating system re-installs.

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Source: ITPro