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 ...

Firmware, encryption, and filesystem traps that break dual boot.

While not production-ready malware, ‘Bootkitty’ provides a proof of concept for exploiting Linux systems at boot-up — widening the UEFI attack path beyond the Windows ecosystem. Bootkitty, a recently ...

Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of ...

UPDATE: November 28, 3:20 PM California time. The headline of this post has been changed. This update is adding the following further details: this threat is not a UEFI firmware implant or rootkit, it ...

We all know that Windows 8 PCs will come locked up tight Microsoft's UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) secure boot on. This will prevent you from easily installing Linux or any other ...

With the increasing prevalence of open-source implementations and the expansion of personal computing device usage to include mobile and non-PC devices as well as traditional desktops and laptops, ...

Can something that's just taken a couple of months to arrive still be considered "long-awaited"? If so, the official Linux UEFI pre-bootloader fits the bill, as it's something that's been needed ever ...

ESET researchers uncover 'Bootkitty', a first-of-its-kind UEFI bootkit for Linux Bootkitty seems to be in early stages of development, but could pose a major risk Linux users warned to be on their ...

One such distribution is Tanglu GNU/Linux, an independent distribution based on Debian which offers KDE, Gnome, and Core (no GUI desktop) versions. When I saw that Tanglu had announced an Alpha ...