‘CosmicStrand’ Highlights Ongoing Firmware Risks

You’re not imagining things; new firmware threats are appearing more often. The most recent is CosmicStrand, which exploits the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) to avoid detection. The new UEFI rootkit, detailed in a blog post by Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team, apparently targets the Intel H81 chipset. The researchers were unable to..

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