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A very stealthy communication end-point over the Ethernet link. It can intercept and forge network frames without the operating system knowing about it.
A physical system memory access using DMA over the PCI link, leading to OS corruption.
No trace of the rootkit on the operating system, as it is being hidden inside the NIC.

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