ESET Research discovers ESPecter, a UEFI bootkit for cyberespionage
2021-10-06
ESET researchers have discovered a previously undocumented real-world UEFI bootkit that persists on the EFI System Partition (ESP). The bootkit, which ESET has named ESPecter, can bypass Windows Driver Signature Enforcement to load its own unsigned driver, which facilitates its espionage activities. ESPecter is the second discovery of a UEFIRead More…