Kaspersky finds UEFI images that could be used for malware transport – iTWire

Russian security firm Kaspersky claims to have found a number of suspicious UEFI images, based on the leaked source code of the Italian firm Hacking Team, containing a malicious implant that could be used place a malicious update on a Windows system.The images placed a file called IntelUpdate.exe in the victims Windows Startup folder.
Researchers Mark Lechtik, Igor Kuznetsov and Yury Parshin said in a detailed blog post that this was the second time that malicious UEFI firmware being used by a …

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