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 ...

Two research groups demonstrate PC firmware vulnerabilities that are difficult to mitigate and likely to be exploited in the wild. Two teams of researchers have revealed vulnerabilities this week in ...

The number of UEFI vulnerabilities discovered in recent years and the failures in patching them or revoking vulnerable binaries within a reasonable time window hasn’t gone unnoticed by threat actors.

Microsoft has fixed a known issue preventing Linux from booting on dual-boot systems with Secure Boot enabled after installing the August 2024 Windows security updates. Microsoft has released a ...

ESET Research has discovered new ransomware samples, which it has named HybridPetya, resembling the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware. They were uploaded to VirusTotal in February 2025. HybridPetya ...

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, March 6, 2023 / EINPresswire.com / -- ESET researchers are the first to publish an analysis of a UEFI bootkit that is capable of bypassing an essential platform security ...

ESET researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that, if exploited, would allow bad actors to circumvent UEFI Secure Boot and deploy malicious UEFI bootkits such as Bootkitty or BlackLotus on ...

After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that's based on Linux. Read now Tail OS, an operating system optimized for privacy and anonymity, has ...

Some signed third-party bootloaders for the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) could allow attackers to execute unauthorized code in an early stage of the boot process, before the operating ...

Why it matters: Discovered in October 2022, BlackLotus is a powerful UEFI-compatible bootkit sold on underground marketplaces at $5,000 per license. The malware provides impressive capabilities, and a ...

This article describes how to enable Secure Boot to install Windows 11. How Do I Enable Secure Boot? The easiest way to enable Secure Boot is to do so through UEFI. It's typically listed as one of the ...