What could be worse than a ransomware attack on your company? Only an incident that hits your company’s clients, I guess. Well, that’s exactly what happened to MSI — the large Taiwanese manufacturer of laptops, video adapters and motherboards. In the beginning of April, word got out that the company was attacked by a new ransomware gang called Money Message; a while later the … [Read more...] about Safeguards against firmware signed with stolen MSI keys
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Researchers Uncover UEFI Secure Boot Bypass in 3 Microsoft Signed Boot Loaders
A security feature bypass vulnerability has been uncovered in three signed third-party Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot loaders that allow bypass of the UEFI Secure Boot feature. "These vulnerabilities can be exploited by mounting the EFI System Partition and replacing the existing bootloader with the vulnerable one, or modifying a UEFI variable to load the … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover UEFI Secure Boot Bypass in 3 Microsoft Signed Boot Loaders
Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors
A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a new report published yesterday for their efforts to deploy "dozens of digitally … [Read more...] about Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors