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Found in the wild: The world’s first unkillable UEFI bootkit for Linux (arstechnica.com)
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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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[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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

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