While not production-ready malware, ‘Bootkitty’ provides a proof of concept for exploiting Linux systems at boot-up — ...

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 an 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 ...

Researchers at security firm ESET said Wednesday that they found the first UEFI bootkit for Linux. The discovery may portend ...

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

ESET researchers uncover 'Bootkitty', a first-of-its-kind UEFI bootkit for Linux Bootkitty seems to be in early stages of ...

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 ...