Well yeah but actually no. This is the same as hanging up fake camera's whilst your neighbour doesn't. Potential intruders likely choose your neighbour because he appears to think less of his security, even though the cameras are just fluff People who run virtual machines either have their workspace in the cloud, so you then you deal with enterprise level security, or they are just security savvy. Those people are likely hard to hack, and once you got into their machines, you find barely anything of value. So yeah. You kind of put yourself in that position. Mind you, VM's are technically slower than just running normally. If you have enough hardware power you're good but if you're on the edge, well...
There was a proof of concept project called RocProtect (searchable on Github) that does basically that, setting up fake processes and dummy registry keys, but without actually installing stuff. Doesn't seem like the guy did much with it.
You can cheat "walk around a room" proctoring by hiding a cheatsheet behind a monitor and then putting it somewhere visible to you but not webcam when you put your webcam back on top of the monitor
Hmmm...
Wait a moment, so I can install VMware tools on my system, and malware won't run because it's thinking it's VM?
Sounds like great idea.
Yep, some of them, I think the world would be an 'interesting' situation if physical machines looked like VMs.
well, some AntiCheats (not kernel level) could start thinking the same
Well yeah but actually no. This is the same as hanging up fake camera's whilst your neighbour doesn't. Potential intruders likely choose your neighbour because he appears to think less of his security, even though the cameras are just fluff
People who run virtual machines either have their workspace in the cloud, so you then you deal with enterprise level security, or they are just security savvy. Those people are likely hard to hack, and once you got into their machines, you find barely anything of value.
So yeah. You kind of put yourself in that position. Mind you, VM's are technically slower than just running normally. If you have enough hardware power you're good but if you're on the edge, well...
There was a proof of concept project called RocProtect (searchable on Github) that does basically that, setting up fake processes and dummy registry keys, but without actually installing stuff. Doesn't seem like the guy did much with it.
@@kuhluhOG Another bonus!
VM is the ultimate software condom.
sounds like we're all getting fked to me
You can cheat "walk around a room" proctoring by hiding a cheatsheet behind a monitor and then putting it somewhere visible to you but not webcam when you put your webcam back on top of the monitor
Such a good podcast 🙏
This malware, does it in the room with us now? 😮
Eric pog