Apple Hires Mac Firmware Thunderstrike 2 Virus Creators Techworm

In November, Kovah suggested on Twitter that he and his partner, Kellenberg, had been hired by Apple to do “low turn security.” The pierce went neglected until MacRumors reported that security analyst Trammell Hudson disclosed this takeover during the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) in December, even though it wasn’t confirmed back then. However, Kovah posted numerous tweets that confirm that he is working in Cupertino now. LegbaCore was best known for developing a proof-of-concept virus-worm hybrid called Thunderstrike 2 that targeted Mac computers. The worm that Kovah developed was able to spread from MacBook to MacBook, even if the computers were not connected to the Internet.

— Xeno Kovah (@XenoKovah) November 10, 2015

— Xeno Kovah (@XenoKovah) November 10, 2015

— Xeno Kovah (@XenoKovah) November 10, 2015

— Xeno Kovah (@XenoKovah) November 10, 2015 “[The conflict is] unequivocally tough to detect, it’s unequivocally tough to get absolved of, and it’s unequivocally tough to strengthen opposite something that’s using inside a firmware,” Kovah told Wired in July. According to Wired, Kovah’s worm virus was the first to attack Macs at the firmware level, which means it targeted the software that boots up before the computer’s primary operating system, OS X. It’s a valued kind of attack because it usually can’t be detected by antivirus and other security software. The virus could spread to certain peripherals such as an Apple-branded Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter, after Thunderstrike 2 installed itself on a target’s computer, which would then spread the virus to other Macs it was plugged into. Thankfully, Kovah and his team informed Apple of the vulnerabilities, and these have been patched up since. Even though Apple does not compensate “bug bounties” to researchers for anticipating confidence problems, it seems to found a suitable job for the founders of LegbaCore. With Kovan and his team on board, looks like the Mac platform is going to be more secure than ever before from the threats of firmware modification and malware.