there is an option to boot from a USB drive within a running Windows OS installation. If Fast Boot is enabled in UEFI/BIOS, you may not be able to boot from a USB flash drive unless you boot from ...

The 'Bootkitty' prototype UEFI bootkit contains and exploit for LogoFAIL and was created in a South Korea university program.

The recently uncovered 'Bootkitty' UEFI bootkit, the first malware of its kind targeting Linux systems, exploits ...

"Bootkitty" is a new and concerning malware that targets Linux systems. Eset analysts recently discovered the bootkit in a ...

The BIOS (basic input/output system) firmware is being replaced by the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) standard interface for PCs – designed to improve software interoperability and ...

runs in DXE and is how the system determines what drive to boot (hard drive, USB, etc.). This has been a very dense and x86 specific overview. Many architectures such as ARM eschew UEFI for ...

After Bootkitty is executed by the shim, it checks to see whether UEFI Secure Boot is enabled by examining the value of the SecureBoot UEFI variable, and proceeds to hook two functions from the ...

This appears to be the first UEFI bootkit that goes beyond Windows and targets Linux machines, according to ESET security ...

ESET’s malware research team reported the discovery of a prototype UEFI bootkit specifically targeting specific ...

The first UEFI bootkit specifically targeting Linux systems has been discovered, marking a shift in stealthy and ...

Dubbed Bootkitty by its creators who go by the name BlackCat, the bootkit is assessed to be a proof-of-concept (PoC) and ...