The UEFI firmware implementation in some motherboards from ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock is vulnerable to direct memory access (DMA) attacks that can bypass early-boot memory protections. The ...

The security threat research team at antivirus-maker Kaspersky has discovered a malware called "CosmicStrand". The malware, in fact, isn't new as an earlier variant of this dubbed "Spy Shadow trojan" ...

In context: Security firm ESET discovered the first UEFI rootkit that had been used in the wild back in 2018. This type of persistent threat used to be the subject of theoretical discussions among ...

Players of Riot Games on the PC are familiar with the Vanguard kernel-level anti-cheat software by now. However, even with it installed and updated, gamers may have received a notice that their system ...

I am having a hard time upgrading to Windows 11 on my custom set up. I have a Gigabyte Aorus 570 Extreme Motherboard. I updated the Bios to F35d. I keep getting a message that I need to switch the PC ...

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 ...