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Title: The First UEFI Virus? - Ransomware?
Post by: Martin Iturbide on April 05, 2017, 01:54:54 pm
- Gigabyte Firmware Bugs Allow the Installation of BIOS/UEFI Ransomware  (https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/04/04/2027217/gigabyte-firmware-bugs-allow-the-installation-of-biosuefi-ransomware)

The only good things was that this vulnerabilities was found by researchers and not lost in the wild. Even that machines with UEFI BIOS may be the future present, I really don't find the benefit of UEFI compared to the old one. I have some machines with UEFI and you only get into the BIOS when you get into trouble. As a difference with the old one, it has some nice things that I just don't use. Does it make it easy for driver developers? or make it easier for the OS to interact with hardware?

Regards
Title: Re: The First UEFI Virus? - Ransomware?
Post by: Sergey Posokhov on April 05, 2017, 11:21:20 pm
IMHO it was marketing. Twice upon a time, someone's wanted to switch users from WinXP to Win7.