Keyloggers and Virtualization

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Published on 2010-09-23T16:54:33Z Indexed on 2013/06/27 10:24 UTC
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Whilst pondering about security, and setting up different VM for certain online activities deemed more risky or requiring extra security (banking, or visiting untrusted websites, etc), I came to think about how such a setup (different VMs for different uses) would defend me against a keylogger.

So, two questions then:

1: If a keylogger has been installed inside a VM, can it capture data outside its own VM?

2: The opposite, does a keylogger in a host capture strokes typed within a VM residing in that host?

My bet would be No and Yes respectively, but I really have no idea. Anyone else does?

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