A rare Windows UEFI bootkit malware has been discovered, offering attackers a path to cyber-espionage, researchers are warning. According to ESET, the bootkit’s goal is to install a full featured backdoor on a target PC, which “supports a rich set of commands and contains various automatic data exfiltration capabilities, including document stealing, keylogging and monitoring of the victim’s screen by periodically taking screenshots.” Startup Security Gets the Boot The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the embedded firmware component in computing chips responsible for securing the computing environment upon startup and loading the operating system.

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