hacked by the (alleged) `amazon-security' scammers

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2021 13:37:04 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> If the intruders have written into your OS or BIOS, they may well
>> have written into the disk controller itself.  
>
>Paranoid nonsense.

Actually I can update the firmware of my OCZ/TOSHIBA/KIOXIA solid state
drives using a Linux tool from KIOXIA, while partitions are mounted and
in use, just root privileges are required to do so.

Since a wanted firmware update is possible, a malicious unwanted
firmware replacement in theory is possible, too.

However, taking plausibility into account, the OP's Windows machine
might suffer from averaged, way more ordinary malware, if from maleware
at all.

It's not much likely that a drive's firmware gets hacked. Very often
"hacked" Windows computers aren't hacked at all and even Windows isn't
damaged or buggy. Very often it's just a user error.

[satire]

Btw. I'm an African prince working for the Ubuntu security team. Its
recommended that all subscribers of this mailing list send me their
email addresses and passwords of their email accounts (not the
passwords of the mailing list accounts [1]), so we can make the email
accounts more secure. You will receive a thank-you gift from
USD 1,000,000.

[1] Note, Ubuntu never asks for mailing list passwords by email. never
send a mailing list password, if somebody asks you to do so. We only ask
for email account passwords by email. [/1]

[/satire]