For the past seven months—and likely longer—an industry-wide standard that protects Windows devices from firmware infections ...
A new UEFI flaw has been discovered that enables attackers to infect motherboard firmware, staying hidden from operating system security systems.
Speaking of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft seemingly enabled native UEFI and Secure Boot recently on Windows 7. UEFI Secure Boot was something the Redmond company had introduced with Windows 8.
A new UEFI Secure Boot bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-7344 that affects a Microsoft-signed application could be exploited to deploy bootkits even if Secure Boot protection is active.