Organizations should implement automated acceptance testing into their computing asset procurement processes. Acceptance testing assures that devices are received without tampering during the ...

This makes it possible to inject UEFI bootkits such as BootKitty or BlackLotus - completely independent of the installed operating system. ESET reported the vulnerability to the ... Users of Linux ...

For now, this rootkit, which consists of multiple components, only affects Linux versions older than 5.7. In recent months, a new wave of Linux malware seems to have emerged. For example, the first ...

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 signed meaning ...

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.

Bootkitty works on both Linux and Windows devices; LogoFAIL, a string of vulnerabilities that allow threat actors to install malware at boot level, is now actively being abused in the wild, ...

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 can theoretically boot the Linux kernel "seamlessly," even with Secure Boot activated, after which it injects itself into program processes upon system launch.