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Gigabyte motherboards vulnerable to UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

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Dozens of Gigabyte motherboard models run on UEFI firmware vulnerable to security issues that allow planting bootkit malware that is invisible to the operating system and can survive reinstalls. [...]

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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So much for "secure boot" lmao.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

The whole concept of every manufacturer ever having to maintain a private key for this thing to work is retarded

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Meanwhile, Binarly founder and CEO Alex Matrosov told BleepingComputer that Gigabyte most likely hasn’t released fixes. With many of the products already having reached end-of-life, users should not expect to receive any security updates