BIOS under attack: Hackers increasingly focus on boot threats

Hackers are increasingly focusing on targeting pre-operating system environments, such as UEFI and bootloaders, researchers at Eclypsium warn. Recent vulnerabilities allow attackers to bypass any kernel or OS-level protections and remain undetected.

Cybercriminals are expanding their attack surface with boot process and firmware threats that are often overlooked by security solutions.

They are armed with known threats like BlackLotus, BootHole, and EFILock, and know how to bypass Secure Boot.

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