New firmware boot kit in the wild
Kaspersky has discovered a new firmware boot kit in the wild. It is based on the Hacking Team's Toolkit. It has been used to attack diplomats and members of NGOs in Europe, Africa and Asia. Kaspersky researchers have uncovered an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) espionage campaign that uses a firmware boot kit. The malware was detected by Kaspersky's UEFI / BIOS scanning technology, which can also detect unknown threats. The scanning technology identified a previously unknown malware in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), an essential part of every modern computing device today, which makes it very ...