Bootkit malware is especially crafty and dangerous. By running before your PC boots up, it's able to skirt past your usual ...

A new exploit gives attackers a way to drop malware into your system's EFI partition and bypass Secure Boot entirely.

Unlike your typical Windows malware, bootkit malware targets your computer’s boot process which allows an attacker to gain ...

Security researchers have disclosed a new Secure Boot bypass tracked as CVE-2025-3052 that can be used to turn off security ...

A legitimate module could have been abused to deploy bootkit malware that persists even when the hard drive is replaced.

That's because the latest round of patches fixes a flaw that could allow an attacker to control your PC through bootkit malware. Designated as CVE-2025-3052, the Secure Boot bypass flaw is a ...

marking a shift in stealthy and hard-to-remove bootkit threats that previously focused on Windows. Named 'Bootkitty,' the Linux malware is a proof-of-concept that works only on some Ubuntu ...

based on the bootkit’s easy deployment and crimeware groups’ capabilities for spreading malware using their botnets. Here is our summary of the claims from the available publications compared ...

ESET researchers uncover 'Bootkitty', a first-of-its-kind UEFI bootkit for Linux Bootkitty ... While all evidence points to a piece of malware that can hardly do any meaningful damage, the fact ...

Sophos researchers even eventually obtained from the hackers' test machines a specimen of “bootkit” malware designed to hide undetectably in the firewalls' low-level code used to boot up the ...