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1. About this Repository This repository provides content for aiding DoD administrators in verifying systems have applied and enabled mitigations for hardware, firmware, and supply chain ...
UEFI bootkits can be introduced The security vulnerability (CVE-2024-7344) affects a software component signed by Microsoft. Attackers can use this vulnerability to execute malicious code when a ...
A new Linux malware rootkit, Pumakit, has recently surfaced that manages to surreptitiously hide on affected systems. For now, this rootkit, which consists of multiple components, only affects Linux ...
BootKitty BootKitty is a proof-of-concept bootkit designed to execute at boot time and disable signature checking mechanisms within the Linux kernel prior to its initialization. BootKitty is not ...
Recently, security researchers have been analyzing and publishing details about “Iranukit” and “Bootkitty,” malware that targets Linux systems with bootkits. Bootkitty has been getting media coverage ...
UEFI bootkit "Bootkitty" for Linux is a university project from South Korea Several security researchers have examined the prototype and made interesting findings.
LogoFAIL, image parsing vulnerabilities on Linux and Windows, are being actively abused Researchers are saying crooks are installing Bootkitty, the first-ever Linux UEFI bootkit Bootkitty works on ...
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.
The recently uncovered 'Bootkitty' UEFI bootkit, the first malware of its kind targeting Linux systems, exploits CVE-2023-40238, aka 'LogoFAIL,' to infect computers running on a vulnerable UEFI ...
The ‘Bootkitty’ prototype UEFI bootkit contains an exploit for LogoFAIL and was created in a South Korea university program. The discovery of a prototype UEFI bootkit targeting specific Ubuntu Linux ...
The exploit aims to deploy a bootkit known as Bootkitty, which corrupts the boot process of Linux systems by injecting harmful code into the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). LogoFAIL was ...
"Bootkitty" is a new and concerning malware that targets Linux systems. Eset analysts recently discovered the bootkit in a previously unknown UEFI application (bootkit.efi) that someone uploaded ...