Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system ...

UEFI secure boot was designed to block malicious code from sneaking into your PC's BIOS boot-up process. However, a newly ...

Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET has uncovered a new dangerous ransomware strain dubbed "HybridPetya" that can bypass UEFI Secure Boot, one of ...

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware that adds the capability of ...

I'm going to start this post by saying something that a lot of people will find surprising. There are a lot of things that I like about UEFI firmware and the UEFI boot process. I think it is an ...

The developers of the BlackLotus UEFI bootkit have improved the malware with Secure Boot bypass capabilities that allow it to infect even fully patched Windows 11 systems. BlackLotus is the first ...

Hundreds of Windows and Linux computer models from virtually all hardware makers are vulnerable to a new attack that executes malicious firmware early in the boot-up sequence, a feat that allows ...

Commercially developed FinFisher malware now can infect Windows devices using a UEFI bootkit that it injects in the Windows Boot Manager. FinFisher (also known as FinSpy and Wingbird) is a ...