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Back in October 2022, Kaspersky GReAT was looking into a peculiar advertisement on a hacking forum. A cybercriminal had been advertising a UEFI bootkit, dubbed BlackLotus, that could bypass Secure Boot, for $5,000. Given the low price for such powerful Read More …
This guide provides steps that organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2022-21894 via a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus. UEFI bootkits are particularly dangerous as they run Read More …
A threat actor is selling on hacking forums what they claim to be a new UEFI bootkit named BlackLotus, a malicious tool with capabilities usually linked to state-backed threat groups. UEFI bootkits are planted in the system firmware and are Read More …