Secure Boot is designed to create a chain of trust that will prevent ... and user-mode payloads) Here is a diagram showing the execution of the UEFI bootkit: Often, attackers in one of these ...

Secure Boot is ... Most UEFI implementations come preloaded with a certificate called the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI Certificate Authority (CA) that establishes the root of trust for the entire ...

A new UEFI vulnerability has been discovered that is spread through multiple system recovery tools. Bleeping Computer reports ...

Hundreds of UEFI products ... a test Secure Boot "master key"—also known as Platform Key (PK)—generated by American Megatrends International (AMI), which was tagged as "DO NOT TRUST" and ...

These cryptographic keys form the root-of-trust ... for Secure Boot, an industry standard for cryptographically enforcing security in the pre-boot environment of a device. Built into the UEFI ...

PKfail could allow threat actors to bypass Secure Boot protections and plant undetectable UEFI malware on vulnerable systems, leaving users no way to defend or even discover the compromise. PKfail ...