EUVD-2017-17046

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Experts Uncover New 'CosmicStrand' UEFI Firmware Rootkit Used by Chinese Hackers

An unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a new kind of sophisticated Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI firmware rootkit called CosmicStrand. "The rootkit is located in the firmware images of Gigabyte or ASUS motherboards, and we noticed that all these images are...

Cybersecurity Researchers Spotted First-Ever UEFI Rootkit in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers at ESET have unveiled what they claim to be the first-ever UEFI rootkit being used in the wild, allowing hackers to implant persistent malware on the targeted computers that could survive a complete hard-drive wipe. Dubbed LoJax , the UEFI rootkit is part of a malware...

CompuLab Intense PC and MintBox 2 BIOS Privilege Vulnerability

The CompuLab Intense PC and MintBox 2 are both mini-PC devices from CompuLab Israel. the BIOS is a ROM on-chip application. A BIOS privilege vulnerability exists in CompuLab Intense PC and MintBox 2 using versions of BIOS prior to 2017-05-21, which stems from the program's failure to apply write...

CVE-2017-8083

CompuLab Intense PC and MintBox 2 devices with BIOS before 2017-05-21 do not use the CloseMnf protection mechanism for write protection of flash memory regions, which allows local users to install a firmware rootkit by leveraging administrative privileges...

CVE-2017-8083

CompuLab Intense PC and MintBox 2 devices with BIOS before 2017-05-21 do not use the CloseMnf protection mechanism for write protection of flash memory regions, which allows local users to install a firmware rootkit by leveraging administrative privileges...

CVE-2017-8083

CVE-2017-8083 affects CompuLab Intense PC and MintBox 2 BIOS prior to 2017-05-21. The BIOS does not apply CloseMnf write-protection to flash memory regions, allowing a local attacker with administrative privileges to install a firmware rootkit. No remediation details are provided in the connected...

CVE-2017-8083

CompuLab Intense PC and MintBox 2 devices with BIOS before 2017-05-21 do not use the CloseMnf protection mechanism for write protection of flash memory regions, which allows local users to install a firmware rootkit by leveraging administrative privileges...

Apple Mac computer firmware 0day EFI rootkit vulnerability

MAC is apple's self-developed operating system, now commonly used operating systems are windows, linux, mac. MacBook Pro Retina, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air computers may have a security vulnerability in the EFI firmware update, the attacker does not need to physically touch the target machine, c...