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UEFI malware rears ugly head again: Kaspersky uncovers campaign with whiff of China

Jonathan Richards 1

Two things

I'd have thought that a hack of this sophistication would have protected itself against being overwritten: the BIOS update routine must be written in the BIOS code itself, I suppose. Second thing is how careful one is going to have to be to get a certified gold-plated known good benign BIOS to re-flash.

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