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Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux (arstechnica.com)

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“Whether a proof of concept or not, Bootkitty marks an interesting move forward in the UEFI threat landscape, breaking the belief about modern UEFI bootkits being Windows-exclusive threats,” ESET researchers wrote. “Even though the current version from VirusTotal does not, at the moment, represent a real threat to the majority of Linux systems, it emphasizes the necessity of being prepared for potential future threats.”

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[–] 0x0@programming.dev 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Who would've thought replacing a BIOS with what's essentially a micro-computer would open a can of worms...

[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

BIOS was always a micro computer... it's just more standardized now.

And especially things like IPMI (which is essentially a company-sanctioned backdoor to any intel server) which has a full on webserver with an unknown number of threat vectors, things like this really fall flat for security.

Just because threats are found for UEFI (an open standard), it means nothing in grand scheme of things, just that it is more observed and more easily dissected for nefariousness.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago

I meant BIOS is way more limited in scope than UEFI and that's a good thing.

Although since the limitation was most likely due to hardware of the day, i don't know how would a modern BIOS look like.