From the article, the malware "provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (from Windows XP to Windows 10). Once installed, the malware provides a beaconing capability (including configuration and task handling), the memory loading/unloading of malicious payloads for specific tasks and the delivery and retrieval of files to/from a specified directory on the target system. It allows the operator to configure settings during runtime (while the implant is on target) to customize it to an operation."

First the Intel AMT vuln, and now all versions of Windows can be popped. Jesus, I'm just going to start porting Plan9 to my electric abacus.

Another digest of the info: https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/athena-cia-windows-hacking...