Archive for March, 2009
BIOS-level malware
March 24th, 2009. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.
This is scary stuff. Malware that infects the BIOS will not be removed when doing a full OS reinstall. What’s more, the researchers claim even flashing the BIOS does not remove it. It would not be dependent on an OS, so it doesn’t matter what you are running…it could still infect your PC or MAC or Linux (etc, etc) box. This would be bad.
Read the article at ThreatPost.