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Custom-made UEFI bootkit found lurking in the wild – Ars Technica
Attackers are going to great lengths to gain the highest level of persistence.
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For only the second time in the annals of cybersecurity, researchers have found real-world malware lurking in the UEFI, the low-level and highly opaque firmware required to boot up nearly every modern computer.
As software that bridges a PCs device firmware with its operating system, the UEFIshort for Unified Extensible Firmware Interfaceis an operating system in its own right. Its located in a SPI-connected flash storage chip soldered onto the computer motherb…
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