UEFI

NSA publishes guidance on UEFI Secure Boot customization

The US National Security Agency (NSA) published guidance on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot customization. The United…

4 years ago

AMD is going to patch UEFI SMM callout privilege escalation flaw

AMD is going to release patches for a flaw affecting the System Management Mode (SMM) of the Unified Extensible Firmware…

4 years ago

Russian Sednit APT used the first UEFI rootkit of ever in attacks in the wild

Security experts from ESET have spotted the first UEFI rootkit of ever, the code tracked as LoJax was used in attacks…

6 years ago

UEFI Vulnerabilities allow to fully compromise Gigabyte Mini PCs

Experts at Cylance disclosed two UEFI flaws that can be exploited by attackers to install a backdoor on some Gigabyte…

7 years ago

CHIPSEC, Intel Security releases detection tool also for CIA EFI rootkits

After CIA leak, Intel Security releases CHIPSEC, a detection tool for EFI rootkits that detect rogue binaries inside the computer…

7 years ago

Backdoor keys allow attackers to the bypass UEFI Secure Boot

Once again Microsoft failed in fixing a severe Secure Boot vulnerability that can be exploited to install rootkits on Windows…

8 years ago

ThinkPwn UEFI Zero-Day flaw allows hackers to disable security features

The researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk published details of ThinkPwn flaw, a UEFI zero-day that could be exploited by hackers to disable…

8 years ago

Now VirusTotal can scan your firmware image for bad executables

VirusTotal presented a new malware scanning engine that allows users to analyze their firmware images searching for malicious codes. VirusTotal…

8 years ago

CERT CC warns about critical flaws in UEFI implementations

The Carnegie Mellon University CERT/CC warned about the presence of serious vulnerabilities in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). The…

9 years ago

A new way to bypass Secure Boot security mechanism of UEFI

Security Experts discovered a new attack method to defeat Secure Boot security mechanism of the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface).…

10 years ago

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