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

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.

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

The rare UEFI bootkit drops a fully featured backdoor on PCs and gains the ultimate persistence by modifying the Windows Boot Manager. A rare Windows UEFI bootkit malware has been discovered ...

Hackers have developed a bootkit called BlackLotus that’s capable of bypassing the built-in security protections in Windows 11 to install malware and take full control of vulnerable PCs.

The so-called bootkit has been in operation since early this year and is part of "Nemesis," a suite of malware that includes programs for transferring files, capturing screens logging keystrokes ...

after spotting a first-of-its-kind Linux UEFI bootkit, which seems to either be an experimental version, or a version in early development stages. UEFI bootkits are sophisticated malware targeting ...

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 ...