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 ...

The Threat of Linux Bootkits Recently, security researchers have been analyzing and publishing details about “Iranukit” and “Bootkitty,” malware that targets Linux systems with bootkits. Bootkitty has ...

A recently surfaced Linux bootkit, which nests in the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) and is intended to bypass its security measures, is apparently a project by South Korean scientists.

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 ...

While not yet complete, Bootkitty is described as the first UEFI bootkit for Linux that researchers have found. Bootkits like BlackLotus are a particular kind of malware designed to infect the ...