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 ...

Many architectures such as ARM eschew UEFI for something more like coreboot, linuxboot, or LK, where it boots a small Linux kernel that then kexec’s into a much larger kernel. However ...

Want to utterly wipe a drive? ShredOS will do it for you. Install it to a USB stick, boot from said stick, and let it ...

A recently surfaced Linux bootkit, which nests in the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and is intended to bypass its security measures, is apparently a project by South Korean scientists.

BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The UEFI Forum today announced the release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) 2.11 specification and the Platform Initialization (PI) 1.9 ...

Because UEFI lives within a flash memory chip, any malware injected into it can survive reboots, formats and OS reinstalls Researchers from Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky claim to have ...

Researchers from Kaspersky have discovered a new kind of powerful Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware rootkit known as CosmicStrand, which they attribute to an unidentified ...