Microsoft Patch Blocks Critical UEFI Vulnerability Exploited by Bootkits Despite Secure Boot Protections
A newly discovered vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-7344, affects Microsoft-signed UEFI applications, posing a serious security risk even when Secure Boot is enabled. The issue could allow attackers to deploy bootkits, malicious software that runs before the operating system loads. Bootkits are particularly dangerous because they are hard to detect and can survive even an OS … Read more