Although it hasn't been seen in the wild yet A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched ...

UEFI secure boot was designed to block malicious code from sneaking into your PC's BIOS boot-up process. However, a newly ...

Windows may become stuck on the Gigabyte logo during boot due to an issue with the BIOS or corrupted system files. Check this ...

Windows 8’s Secure Boot technology has been a hot topic this summer, causing no end of discussion and debate among the various Linux distributions, which are struggling to figure out the best approach ...

Installing Linux on computers with UEFI BIOS has a bad reputation - sometimes deservedly so. It can be easy, but perhaps more often than not it can be difficult, tedious and messy - and sometimes, as ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware that adds the capability of compromising UEFI-based systems and weaponizing CVE‑2024‑7344 to bypass UEFI ...

ESET researchers have discovered a vulnerability that allows bypassing UEFI Secure Boot, affecting the majority of UEFI-based systems. This vulnerability, assigned CVE-2024-7344, was found in a UEFI ...

A newly discovered and previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit has been used by attackers to backdoor Windows systems by hijacking the Windows Boot Manager since ...

HybridPetya ransomware exploits CVE-2024-7344 to bypass UEFI Secure Boot, encrypts NTFS MFT, and demands $1,000 Bitcoin ...

The extended security update (ESU) support for Windows 7, alongside that of Windows 8.1, ends today. This means no more security updates, via Patch Tuesdays, will be released, and users will either ...