A newly discovered and previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit has been used by attackers to backdoor Windows systems by hijacking the Windows Boot Manager since ...
The UEFI firmware implementation in some motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock is vulnerable to direct memory access (DMA) attacks that can bypass early-boot memory protections. The ...
The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against ...
In context: Security firm ESET discovered the first UEFI rootkit that had been used in the wild back in 2018. This type of persistent threat used to be the subject of theoretical discussions among ...
A crucial Windows security certificate just expired - how to check your PC ...
The security threat research team at antivirus-maker Kaspersky has discovered a malware called "CosmicStrand". The malware, in fact, isn't new as an earlier variant of this dubbed "Spy Shadow trojan" ...
The number of UEFI vulnerabilities discovered in recent years and the failures in patching them or revoking vulnerable binaries within a reasonable time window hasn’t gone unnoticed by threat actors.