Is it just me, or does this sound like a glorified rootkit? There is something called "Bluepill" that uses the hypervisor mode on new hardware to insert what essentially is a mega rootkit into the system that can intercept (and modify/drop) kernel calls. I'm not nearly as computer savy as most people here, but this is what it sounds like. If this is the case, this is old news.
Also, the article mentioned that it was a problem on single-core processors, so the title is misleading.
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Is it just me, or does this sound like a glorified rootkit? There is something called "Bluepill" that uses the hypervisor mode on new hardware to insert what essentially is a mega rootkit into the system that can intercept (and modify/drop) kernel calls. I'm not nearly as computer savy as most people here, but this is what it sounds like. If this is the case, this is old news. Also, the article mentioned that it was a problem on single-core processors, so the title is misleading.