Two research groups demonstrate PC firmware vulnerabilities that are difficult to mitigate and likely to be exploited in the wild. Two teams of researchers have revealed vulnerabilities this week in ...

The “BootHole” bug could allow cyberattackers to load malware, steal information and move laterally into corporate, OT, IoT and home networks. Billions of Windows and Linux devices are vulnerable to ...

Sometimes the features designed to keep our computers safe can put us most at risk thanks to a worrying security flaw that can be exploited by hackers in their attacks. As reported by BleepingComputer ...

I only know that secure boot is a feature that checks the system bootloader is properly signed by something/somebody authorized to do so. So it would make sense that ...

A Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus is found to be capable of bypassing an essential platform security feature, UEFI Secure Boot, according to researchers from ...

ESET Research has discovered new ransomware samples, which it has named HybridPetya, resembling the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware. They were uploaded to VirusTotal in February 2025. HybridPetya ...

A recently patched security vulnerability in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems could allow attackers to bypass Secure Boot protections and compromise system safety during the boot ...

Why it matters: Billions of computers that are currently in use rely on a feature called Secure Boot to ensure malware has one less way of penetrating your computer. However, a new flaw discovered in ...

It’s debatable just how useful Secure Boot is for end users, but now there’s yet another issue with Secure Boot, or more specifically, a trio of signed bootloaders. Researchers at Eclypsium have ...

Despite these vendor implementation problems, Secure Boot is still a huge step forward, Bulygin said. To install bootkits now, attackers first need to find a vulnerability that would allow them to ...

Do you see Event ID 1796 in your Windows 11/10/Server logs? If the Secure update process cannot complete and fails with an error message— The Secure Boot update ...

The Windows 8 Secure Boot mechanism can be bypassed on PCs from certain manufacturers because of oversights in how those vendors implemented the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) ...