UEFI was initially developed by Intel as a firmware for its Itanium-based high-end datacenter computers. That was in the late ...

Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET has uncovered a new dangerous ransomware strain dubbed "HybridPetya" that can bypass ...

ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, on the VirusTotal sample sharing platform. It is a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware, adding the capability of compromising UEFI-based systems ...

UEFI secure boot was designed to block malicious code from sneaking into your PC's BIOS boot-up process. However, a newly ...

Researchers from cybersecurity company ESET have detected a new ransomware called HybridPetya, which is similar to the ...

HybridPetya is the fourth publicly known real or proof-of-concept bootkit with UEFI Secure Boot bypass functionality.

Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

ESET Research has discovered new ransomware samples, which it has named HybridPetya, resembling the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware. They were ...

Although it hasn't been seen in the wild yet A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched vulnerability to bypass Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot ...

With support for Windows 10 ending in late 2025, you might be thinking of updating to Windows 11, but you'd be missing on all ...