MoonBounce Malware Hides In Your BIOS Chip, Persists After Drive Formats

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A new type of malware has been spotted in the wild with a new UEFI malware that hides in your BIOS chip. Kaspersky has observed the growth of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware malware threats since 2019. MoonBounce shows "significant advancement, with a more complicated attack flow and greater technical sophistication" It also seems to have infected a machine remotely. The malware isn't file-based and does at least some of its operations only in memory. It isn't certain how the infection took place, but it is thought it was instigated remotely.

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/moonbo...ve-formats

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its crazy how far the internet/computers have advanced, and yet there hasnt been some major computer bug/virus like late 80's/early 90's said there would be, some over the top file muncher