End goal
End goal
Posted Jul 5, 2024 23:28 UTC (Fri) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: End goal by comex
Parent article: Another try for getrandom() in the vDSO
Simpler, and far less common. The people running desktop VMs are mostly security researchers and a few power users and hobbyists. Especially if it's desktop *Linux*. In the real world, to a first approximation, a Linux VM is nearly always a cloud VM.
Posted Jul 5, 2024 23:31 UTC (Fri)
by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
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End goal
(Just in case I wasn't clear enough: Attackers usually want to compromise as many users as possible, so an attack that only affects a tiny fraction of the computer-using population is simply not worth developing. Especially when a significant portion of that tiny fraction is made up of security researchers, whom malware authors generally try to avoid hitting in order to further obfuscate their work.)