Huge Cyberattack Knocks Ukraine's Largest Mobile Operator Offline

Hundreds of Windows and Linux computer models from virtually all hardware
makers are vulnerable to a new attack that executes malicious firmware early
in the boot-up sequence, a feat that allows infections that are nearly
impossible to detect or remove using current defense mechanisms.

The attack”dubbed LogoFAIL by the researchers who devised it”is notable for
the relative ease in carrying it out, the breadth of both consumer- and
enterprise-grade models that are susceptible, and the high level of control
it …

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