A newly discovered and previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit has been used by attackers to backdoor Windows systems by hijacking the Windows Boot Manager since ...

Researchers on Wednesday announced a major cybersecurity find—the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced ...

The extended security update (ESU) support for Windows 7, alongside that of Windows 8.1, ends today. This means no more security updates, via Patch Tuesdays, will be released, and users will either ...

Unless your computer is pretty old, it probably uses UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) to boot. The idea is that a bootloader picks up files from an EFI partition and uses them to start ...

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, on the VirusTotal sample sharing platform. It is a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware, adding the capability of compromising UEFI-based systems ...

Battlefield 6 launch day has finally arrived, and many PC gamers will soon find out that Secure Boot must be enabled in Windows 10 or Windows 11 before playing. Secure Boot is designed to keep your PC ...

UPDATE (December 2 nd, 2024): The bootkit described in this report seems to be part of a project created by cybersecurity students participating in Korea's Best of the Best (BoB) training program. As ...

For the past seven months—and likely longer—an industry-wide standard that protects Windows devices from firmware infections could be bypassed using a simple technique. On Tuesday, Microsoft finally ...

Bottom line: Microsoft has addressed a significant security vulnerability that left Windows 11 open to malware attacks at one of the system's most critical levels for more than half a year. It's ...