[kwlug-disc] Anatomy of a UEFI rootkit

Khalid Baheyeldin kb at 2bits.com
Thu Jul 28 16:44:13 EDT 2022


UEFI is now being exploited to install rootkits on PCs.

Thought this is Windows, doing it for Linux should not be far behind ...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/researchers-unpack-unkillable-uefi-rootkit-that-survives-os-reinstalls/

It is not clear to me how such malware infects the UEFI to begin with ...
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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