On Thursday, Ars Technica ran a story about badBIOS, a nasty piece of malware allegedly discovered three years ago by security consultant Dragos Ruiu on an Apple laptop. The malware is so sophisticated that some wonder if the story is real or just a hoax. The rootkit appears to be advanced and highly persistent, with “self-healing” capabilities. It can infect computers running almost any operating system by changing the device’s firmware, including the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) and the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 12:00:27 +0000