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CIA Implant: Green Lambert for OS X

118 points| jbegley | 4 years ago |objective-see.com

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[+] dontbenebby|4 years ago|reply
Stupid question, but if I wanted to recreate Runa's analysis to learn these tools, where do I go to get it?

I clicked over to Wikileaks + Kapersky's post, interested in possibly writing a small shell script to automate running some of these commands on a given file as a weekend project, but it'd be hard to test such a tool w/o the original binary.

(Maybe it's just been a long day and I'm missing a plainly labeled link, and if so, I apologize for not RTFMing hard enough :) )

[+] saagarjha|4 years ago|reply
> But which version of OS X does the implant need? We know that it’s a 32-bit executable, and the latest macOS is 64-bit only. We can narrow this down further by looking at symbols using nm.

Not sure if it was useful in this case, but usually you can find this information in the Mach-O header.

[+] sneeeeeed|4 years ago|reply

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[+] junon|4 years ago|reply
These sorts of comments are discouraged on HN as per the guidelines. Link at the bottom of the page.
[+] photochemsyn|4 years ago|reply
NoScript on Firefox solves that problem. Yes it breaks a lot of pages, but then you get to fiddle about allowing and banning different scripts to see what's doing what. Probably not for everyone but I like the educational value.

[Edit] So that pop-up is coming from mailchimp_com, which is called by list-manage_com, which in turn is called by s3amazonaws_com. So blocking that last one is all you need.

In fact this is quite a great web site, as it displays all its content even if you completely disable all scripts.

[+] simion314|4 years ago|reply
Works great with JS off. For power user I suggest a browser that let's you easily whitelist JS for the websites you need.(I use Vivaldi)
[+] devwastaken|4 years ago|reply
I can't read it on mobile because the site fails to add a basic viewport meta tag.
[+] amatecha|4 years ago|reply
FWIW I am browsing with Firefox with "Strict" privacy settings and didn't get any popup.
[+] jcun4128|4 years ago|reply
It's funny I won't accept those "cookies" so I've gotten used to part of SO's screen real estate being taken. Or on a Ubuntu page I do F12/kill the popup... can put that in some kind of extension but ehh...
[+] unstatusthequo|4 years ago|reply
The developer is pretty well respected. Click the X on the newsletter and there is great content.
[+] dalrympm|4 years ago|reply
I had the exact same reaction. Do we have a tl;dr equivalent for these things?

pu;dr ?

[+] amatecha|4 years ago|reply
Where is it asserted/confirmed that Longhorn == CIA? I don't see it mentioned in the article nor the linked articles (not that I searched exhaustively).
[+] BrianGragg|4 years ago|reply
The first line from the article: In March 2017, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of files detailing the CIA’s spying operations and hacking tools. The leak, known as Vault 7, was the largest disclosure of classified information in the agency’s history. In April, Symantec publicly linked Vault 7 to an advanced threat actor named Longhorn. Kaspersky then announced it tracks the same actor as The Lamberts, and revealed the existence of an OS X implant called Green Lambert.