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Researcher at ESET outlines research on the first successful UEFI rootkit used in the wild.
Out-of-band management systems can be a weak link to securing your data center. Here's how a debug utility can be leveraged to brick your systems.
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: What do you mean by storage encryption? Depending on the threat context and how you define “storage encryption,” it...
Deep dive into motherboard firmware-lurking code A UEFI rootkit, believed to have been built from an anti-thief software program by Kremlin spies to snoop on European governments, has been...
Cybersecurity researchers at ESET have unveiled what they claim to be the first-ever UEFI rootkit being used in the wild, allowing hackers to implant persistent malware on the targeted computers...
Russian cyber-espionage group Fancy Bear is the first threat actor to have used a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) rootkit in a malicious campaign, ESET’s security researchers claim. read more
ESET researchers have discovered a cyberattack that used a UEFI rootkit to establish a presence on the victims’ computers. Dubbed LoJax, this rootkit was part of a campaign run by the infamous...
The glitch stems from a functionality intended to allow updates to the UEFI firmware.
The scope of the ThinkPwn UEFI vulnerability disclosed last week has grown past Lenovo and HP laptop firmware to motherboards sold by Gigabyte.