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Fancy Bear's new LoJax malware
« on: 27 September 2018, 19:40:39 »

Targets the UEFI chip. Not the first to do this as 5-eyes intelligence may have been using similar for sometime on very high value targets.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fancy-bear-the-russian-election-hackers-have-a-nasty-new-weapon?source=twitter&via=desktop
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Re: Fancy Bear's new LoJax malware
« Reply #1 on: 27 September 2018, 19:50:36 »

CBA to read the page (too many ads make it tedious on my 11yr old laptop), but UEFI isn't a chip, its software.  And all software is always vulnerable to attack, as there is no such thing as perfect code.
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