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一 | Berlin, Oct 20 (UNI) The second delegation of German lawmakers in a month, led by Peter Heidt, a politician from the Free Democratic Party, will visit Taiwan from October 23-26 to discuss human rights issues, the island's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
"A delegation from the Bundestag's [German parliament's] human rights committee led by the member of parliament, Peter Heidt, will visit Taiwan from October 23-26. This is the second official delegation from the German parliament in a month," the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Germany's six-member delegation, which will include members of various political parties, is scheduled to meet with the head of the island's administration, Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwanese Foreign Minister Jaushieh Joseph Wu, and Chen Chu, the head of the National Human Rights Commission.
As part of the trip, the delegation will also visit the National Taiwan Human Rights Museum and discuss human rights cooperation with local non-governmental organizations and think tanks.
The first delegation from the German parliament in three years visited the island from October 2-6. The group included seven lawmakers and was headed by Klaus-Peter Wilsch, the head of the parliamentary group responsible for relations with Taipei. Germany became the second European country after France to send a delegation to the island since the deterioration of the environment in the Taiwan Strait.
The situation around Taiwan escalated after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island in early August. Beijing condemned Pelosi's trip, which it regarded as a gesture of support for separatism, and launched large-scale military exercises in the vicinity of the island. Despite this fact, several countries, including France, Germany, the United States, Japan and others, have sent their delegations to the island since then, further increasing tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
Taiwan has been governed independently from mainland China since 1949. Beijing views the island as its province, while Taiwan — a territory with its own elected government — maintains that it is an autonomous country but stops short of declaring independence. Beijing opposes any official contacts of foreign states with Taipei and considers Chinese sovereignty over the island indisputable.
UNI/SPUTNIK GNK。最近引发广泛讨论的“BlackLotus”，属于一款相当全能的固件级 rootkit 恶意软件。特点是能够躲过各种删除操作，以及绕过先进的 Windows 防护措施。此前这类高级攻击能力，仅被拥有深厚背景的机构所拥有，比如情报威胁组织。然而据报道，一款更新、更强大的 UEFT rootkit，正被人挂到暗网论坛上叫卖。“防护环”示意（图自：Wikipedia / Hertzsprung）卖家宣称 BlackLotus 是一款固件级 rootkit 恶意软件，能够绕过 Windows 防护措施、并在 x86 架构的最底层运行恶意代码。

二 | 率先曝光此事的安全研究人员指出，单个 rootkit 的许可证费用高达 5000 美元，而后续代码重建则只需 200 美元。不过考虑到卖家罗列出来的功能，即使需要耗费重资，世界各地的网络犯罪分子和黑帽黑客也会趋之若鹜。Scott Scheferman 总结道：BlackLotus 采用了汇编与 C 语言编写，体量仅 80KB（约 81920 字节）。

三 | 通过在内核级别（ring 0）提供‘代理防护’（agent protection），该 rootkit 能够在 UEFI 固件中长期驻留。此外 BlackLotus 具有反虚拟机、反调试和代码混淆功能，以阻碍研究人员对其展开分析尝试，且附带功能齐备的安装指南 / 常见问题解答。

四 | 黑市叫卖帖与同类 rootkit 一样，BlackLotus 能够在 Windows 启动前的第一阶段被加载，因而能够绕过 Windows / x86 平台上的诸多安全防护措施。除了无视 Secure Boot、UAC、BitLocker、HVCI 和 Windows Defender，该恶意软件还提供了加载未签名驱动程序的能力。其它高级功能包括功能齐备的文件传输模式、以及易攻破的签名引导加载程序 —— 除非影响当今仍在使用的数百个引导加载程序，否则很难将它斩草除根。Scott Scheferman 还强调了 BlackLotus 可能对基于固件的现代安全防护机制构成威胁。