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Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux (arstechnica.com)
submitted 6 days ago by purrtastic@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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“Whether a proof of concept or not, Bootkitty marks an interesting move forward in the UEFI threat landscape, breaking the belief about modern UEFI bootkits being Windows-exclusive threats,” ESET researchers wrote. “Even though the current version from VirusTotal does not, at the moment, represent a real threat to the majority of Linux systems, it emphasizes the necessity of being prepared for potential future threats.”

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 6 days ago (15 children)

Unfortunately a lot of people in the Linux world still hate secure boot because they associate it with locking your PC to only running windows. Never mind the fact that basically every big Linux distro plays nicely with secure boot these days, and has for a while now.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

because they associate it with locking your PC to only running windows.

They're not exactly wrong. BIOS/UEFI bugs that make it a royal pain to use secure boot with anything but Windows are pretty common.

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And many mainboards also suck in this regard. On mine, I can set secure boot mode to either 'Windows OS' (which means secure boot on) or 'Other OS' (which means secure boot is off). Took me a couple hours to figure that out

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

Can confirm. I've seen this on multiple boards. I think this was Asus nomenclature.

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