PC World

Hacking Team’s malware uses a UEFI rootkit to survive operating system reinstalls

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...
ExtremeTech

Demystifying UEFI, the long-overdue BIOS replacement

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Bleeping Computer

Microsoft blocks UEFI bootloaders enabling Windows Secure Boot bypass

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 ...
Computerworld

Hacking Team’s malware uses UEFI rootkit to survive OS reinstalls

Surveillance software maker Hacking Team has provided its government customers with the ability to infect the low-level firmware found in laptops and other computers that they wanted to spy on. The ...