Tag: UEFI
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Glupteba Botnet Evades Detection with Undocumented UEFI Bootkit
The Glupteba botnet has been found to incorporate a previously undocumented Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit feature, …
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PixieFail UEFI Flaws Expose Millions of Computers to RCE, DoS, and Data Theft
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the TCP/IP network protocol stack of an open-source reference implementation of …
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New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs across an entire ecosystem scrambling
UEFI firmware from five of the leading suppliers contains vulnerabilities that allow attackers with a toehold in a user’s network to infect …
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UEFI flaws allow bootkits to pwn potentially hundreds of devices using images
Hundreds of consumer and enterprise devices are potentially vulnerable to bootkit exploits through unsecured BIOS image parsers. Security …
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CISA: Immediate action on UEFI cybersecurity needed
Organizations across the U.S. have been urged by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to strengthen the defenses of their …
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Exclusive: CISA Sounds the Alarm on UEFI Security
Against the backdrop of the debacle that mitigating the BlackLotus bootkit has become, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency …
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BlackLotus UEFI bootkit Can Bypass Secure Boot on Windows
Security firm ESET’s cybersecurity researchers have shared their analysis of the world’s first UEFI bootkit being used in the wild, …
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Week in review: LastPass breach, GCP data exfiltration, UEFI bootkit
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Google Cloud Platform allows data …
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BlackLotus UEFI bootkit disables Windows security mechanisms
ESET researchers have published the first analysis of a UEFI bootkit capable of circumventing UEFI Secure Boot, a critical platform …
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It’s official: BlackLotus malware can bypass Secure Boot on Windows machines
BlackLotus, a UEFI bootkit that’s sold on hacking forums for about $5,000, can now bypass Secure Boot, making it the first known malware to …
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BlackLotus Becomes First UEFI Bootkit Malware to Bypass Secure Boot on Windows 11
A stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus has become the first publicly known malware capable of …
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Chip Vulnerabilities Impacting Microsoft, Lenovo, and Samsung Devices
In total 22 proprietary software vulnerabilities were identified in the firmware, which Qualcomm addressed in its January 2023 security …
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