One of the essential operations of any embedded processor is the booting process. However, despite the apparent simplicity of the boot process, the options associated with booting a processor can ...

This appears to be the first UEFI bootkit that goes beyond Windows and targets Linux machines, according to ESET security researchers. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael ...

UPDATE 11/28: A student in South Korea claims BootyKitty is merely a research project that has no malicious motives behind it. "We are students studying in South Korea. We don't know how this PoC ...

Researchers have spotted what they believe is the first ever malware capable of infecting the boot process of Linux systems. "Bootkitty" is proof-of-concept code that students in Korea developed for a ...

Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by exploiting a year-old firmware vulnerability when it remains ...