A hacker is planning next month a method to reveal non-removable malware on MacBooks. The malware is ge lwa installed on the accuchips. This would give the hacker the battery can make it explode.
Beveligingsonderzoeker Charlie Miller wants the vulnerability in the chips that the battery control next month reveal on hackersconferentie Black Hat, writes Forbes. He wants not only the method, but also comes with a fix. That fix has the side effect that Apple itself the software of the chips are also not able to restore by means of software-updates.
Miller says that malware on the accuchips can be turned by breaking into the software via the default password. A hacker can then, in theory, to do everything: install malware to transfer data to steal from the MacBook, where the re-install of the OS and even the flashing of the bios does not help. “It will be, yet again, to graze.” Also, the hacker remotely the battery, harassment, and allegedly ensure that it explodes, or by overheating in the fire flies.
Nevertheless, it is a hacker still not installing malware on the chips, which serve to set the battery level to the OS. There also needs to be a vulnerability be found in the interface between the chips, and Mac OS X. Miller believes that it is possible, but he has not tried.
There are still various uncertainties in the story of Miller: he has no proof-of-concept of the hack and he has some of the dangers he warns, such as the remote detonate of a MacBook battery, not tried. Moreover, it is unclear whether also laptops with Windows, Chrome OS or other Linux distros prone to this type of attack.
